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PUBLICATIONS OF THE
NORTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL COMMISSION
LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE LIBRARY
NORTH CAROLINA MANUAL
1933
COMPILED AND EDITED
BY
H. M. LONDON
LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE LIBRARIAN
RALEIGH
NORTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL COMMISSION
1933
Presses of
Edwards & Brouohton Company
State Printers
Raleigh, N. C.
PREFACE
This volume is issued by the North Carolina Historical Com-
mission in order to furnish in succinct form information about the
State, its government and institutions, which otherwise would re-
quire much investigation in many different sources. Unless other-
wise stated, the data in each case is the latest available.
Similar manuals were issued by the Secretary of State in
1903, 1905, and 1907, and by the North Carolina Historical Com-
mission in 1909, 1911, 1913, 1915, 1917, 1919, 1921, 1923, 1925, 1927,
1929 and 1931. The demand for these volumes has been so great
that all editions except those of 1925 and 1927 have been exhausted.
The cut in the 1930-1931 and 1931-1933 appropriations of the His-
torical Commission as a result of the general condition of State
finances has compelled a sharp reduction in the size and scope of
the 1931 and 1933 editions of the Manual. The sections, "Executive
Departments," "Judicial Department," "State Departments, Boards
and Commissions," "State Charitable and Correctional Institu-
tions," "Miscellaneous," and "Constitutions," which are found in
previous editions, have been omitted.
NORTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL COMMISSION
M. C. S. Noble, Chairman, Chapel Hill
Heriot Clakkson Raleigh
Mrs. Thomas O'Berry Goldsboro
Miss Neil Battle Lewis Raleigh
R. D. W. Connob Chapel Hill
A. R. Newsome, Secretary, Raleigh
CONTENTS
Page
Official Register for 1933-1934 7
The Legislative Department:
Officers ond Members of the Senate 13
Senators 14
Senatorial Districts 15
Standing Committees of the Senate 17
Officers and Members of the House of Representatives 21
Representatives 23
Standing Committees of the House of Representatives 26
New State Boards and Commissions:
Department of Labor 35
Reorganized Board of Agriculture 36
Highway Commission 37
Banking Department 38
Department of Personnel 39
Division of Purchase and Contract 40
Local Government Commission 43
University Consolidation Commission 45
Constitutional Commission 46
Commission for the Improvement of the Laws 46
State Board of Plumbing and Heating Examiners 47
Platforms of Political Parties, 1932:
Democratic National Platform 51
Republican National Platform 56
State Democratic Platform 67
State Republican Platform 71
Election Returns :
Popular and Electoral Votes for President by States, 1932 85
Popular Vote for President by States, 1916-1928 86
Vote for President by Counties, 1920-1932 88
Vote by Counties for Governor in Democratic Primaries,
1924-1932 91
Vote for State Officers in Democratic Primary, 1932 !»:*
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Page
Vote for State Officers in Democratic Primaries, 192S, 1930
and 1932 99
Democratic Primary Vote, June 7, 1930, for United States
Senator 100
Democratic Primary Vote, June 4 and July 2, 1932, for United
States Senator 101
Republican Primary Vote, June 4, 1932, for United States
Senator 103
Vote for Governor by Counties, 1920-1932 104
Vote for United States Senator, 1924-1932 106
Vote for Members of Congress, 1924-1932 108
Vote for Constitutional Amendments by Counties, 1932 118
Biographical Sketches:
Executive Officials 127
Justices of the Supreme Court 133
United States Senators 137
Representatives in Congress 138
Members of the General Assembly 144
OFFICIAL REGISTER FOR 1933-34
LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT
Alexander H. Graham President of the Senate Oiange
R. L. Harris Speaker of the House of Representatives. Person
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
J. C. B. Ehringhaus - Governor Pasquotank
Alexander H. Graham Lieutenant Governor Orange
Stagey W. Wade Secretary of State Wake
Baxter Durham Auditor Wake
Charles M. Johnson Treasurer Wake
A. T. Allen Superintendent of Public Instruction. ...Alexander
Dennis G. Brummitt Attorney General Granville
JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT
supreme court justices
Walter P. Stacy Chief Justice New Hanover
W. J. Adams Associate Justice Moore
Heriot Clarkson Associate Justice Mecklenburg
George W. Connor Associate Justice Wilson
W. J. Brogden Associate Justice Durham
superior court judges
W. L. Small First District Pasquotank-Elizabeth City
M. V. Barnhill Second District Nash-Rocky Mount
R. Hunt Parker Third District Halifax-Roanoke Rapids
Frank A. Daniels Fourth District Wayne-Goldsboro
J. Paul Frizzelle Fifth District Greene-Snow Hill
H. A. Grady Sixth District Sampson-Clinton
W. C. Harris Seventh District Wake-Raleigh
E. H. Cranmer Eighth District Brunswick-Southport
N. A. Sinclair Ninth District Cumberland-Fayettevilh>
William A. Devin Tenth District Granville-Oxford
J. H. Clement Eleventh District Forsyth- Winston-Salem
H. Hoyle Sink — Twelfth District Davidson-Lexfngton
A. M. Stack Thirteenth District Union-Monroe
W. F. Harding Fourteenth District Mecklenburg-Charlotte
J. M. Oglesby Fifteenth District Cabarrus-Concord
Wilson Warlick Sixteenth District Catawba-Newton
T. B. FlNLEY Seventeenth District Wilkes-Wilkesboro
Michael Schenck Eighteenth District Henderson-Henderson vilU>
P. A. McElroy Nineteenth District Madison-Marshall
Felix E. Alley Twentieth District Haywood-Waynesville
special judges
G. V. Cowper Lenoir-Kinston
Clayton Moore Martin-Williamston
Frank S. Hill Cherokee-Murphy
EMERGENCY' JUDGE
Thomas J. Shaw Guilford-Greensboro
solicitors
Herbert R. Leary First District Chowan-Edenton
Donnell Gilliam Second District Edgecombe-Tarboro
W. H. S. BURGWYN Third District Northampton-Woodland
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C. L. Williams Fourth District Lee-Sanford
D. M. Ci-ark Fifth District Pitt-Greenville
.T. A. POWERS Sixth District Lenoir-Kinston
,T. C. Little Seventh District Wake-Raleigh
WOODUS KELliUM Eighth District New Hanover-Wilmington
T. A. McNeill. _. Ninth District Robeson-Lumberton
I.i;o Carr Tenth District Burlington -Alamance
Carlisle W. HlGGINS Eleventh District Alleghany-Sparta
11. L. KOONTZ Twelfth District Guilford-Greensboro
F. D. Ptttt.t.tph Thirteenth District Richmond-Rockingham
J. (i. CARPENTER. Fourteenth District Gaston-Gastonia
Z. V. LONG Fifteenth District Iredell-Statesville
L. S. SPURUNQ —Sixteenth District Caldwell-Lenoir
JOHN K. JONES Seventeenth District Wilkes-North Wilkesboro
.1. W. Pless Eighteenth District McDowell-Marion
ZEBULON V. Nettles -.Nineteenth District Buncombe-Asheville
John M. Queen Twentieth District Haywood-Waynesville
CORPORATION COMMISSION
W. T. Lee Chairman Haywood
George P. Pell Commissioner Forsyth
Stanley Winborn Commissioner Hertford
R. Otis Self Chief Clerk Jackson
ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENTS, BOARDS, AND COMMISSIONS
adjutant general's department
J. Van B. Metts The Adjutant General New Hanover
department of agriculture
W. A. Graham Commissioner Lincoln
department of labor
A. L. FLETCHER Commissioner Ashe
department of insurance
D. C. BONEY Commissioner Lenoir
department of revenue
A. J. Maxwell Commissioner Craven
state highway commission
E. B. JEFFRESS Chairman Guilford
Charles Ross Attorney Harnett
state board of health
Dr. J. M. Parrott Secretary Lenoir
department of conservation and development
J. W. HARRELSON Director Cleveland
state board of charities and public welfare
Mks. \V. T. Host Commissioner Wake
Official Register
NORTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL COMMISSION
A. R. Newsome Secretary Union
LIBRARY COMMISSION
Miss Marjorie Beal Secretary Wake
STATE LIBRARY
Miss Carrie L. Broughton Librarian Wake
LAW LIBRARY
John A. Livingstone Librarian Wake
personnel commission
Frank L. Dunlap Director Anson
industrial commission
Matt H. Allen Chairman Lonoir
STATE PRISON
George Ross Poi - Superintendent Johnston
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ADVISORY COMMISSION
W. E. Easterling Director Wake
BUDGET BUREAU
J. C. B. Ehringhaus, Governor, Ex Officio. .Director Pasquotank
BOARD OF EQUALIZATION
LeRoy B. Martin Secretary Yadkin
BANKING COMMISSION
Gurnet P. Hood Commissioner Wayne
DIVISION OP PURCHASE AND CONTRACT
A. S. Brower Director Wake
II)
Official Registeb
SUPERIOR C'oikt CALENDAR, 1933-34
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Warlick
Finley
Schenck
PART I
THE LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT
1. Officers of the Senate.
2. Members of the Senate (Arranged Alphabetically).
3. Members of the Senate (Arranged by Districts).
4. Senatorial Districts.
5. Standing Committees of the Senate.
6. Officers of the House of Representatives.
7. Members of the House of Representatives (Arranged Alpha-
betically).
8. Members of the House of Representatives (Arranged by
Counties).
9. Standing Committees of the House of Representatives.
OFFICERS AND MEMBERS OF THE SENATE
OFFICERS
A. H. Graham - President
W. A. Clark - President pro tern .
LeRoy B. Martin Principal Clerk
John D. Norton . Sergeant-at-Arms..
B. F. Smith Reading Clerk
.Orange
.Edgecombe
-Yadkin
.Jackson
.Wake
SENATORS
(Alphabetically Arranged)
Name
Aiken, John W - - Twenty-fifth
Bagley, Dudley
Bailey, C. L
Barker, J. Abner
Beatty, John D., Jr.
Bell, J.
Blackstock, C. E....
Bland, D. H
Boggan, W. K
Blackburn, J. M
Blue, L. M
Brown, W. A _
Burgin, W.
Clark, W. G
Clement, Hayden.
Corey, A. B
Cross, T. S
Dempsey, J. C
Dunagan, Stover P..
Efird, Crayon C.
Fuller, D. H....
Francis, W. R...
Grady, Paul D
Greene, George L..
Griffin, E. F
Griffin, L. E
Gwyn, Allen H
Hairfield, E. M....
Hanes, R. M
Hartsell, L. T., Jr..
Hill, John Sprunt..
Hinsdale, John W..
Ingram, H. L
Joyner, W. H
Kirkpatrick, T. L..
District
First
Second
Ninth
Tenth
Twenty-fourth .
Thirtv-first
Eighth
Nineteenth
Twenty-fourth .
Eighteenth
Ninth
Eighteenth
Fourth
Twenty-fir,st .
Fifth
Thirteenth.-.
Sixth .__.
Twenty-seventh.
Nineteenth j
Eleventh
Thirty-second-
Eighth-.
Thirtieth
Sixth.
First---.
Seventeenth - .
Twenty-eighth .
Twenty-second -
Twentieth
Sixteenth
Thirteenth
Twelfth...
Third
Twentieth
Party
Democrat Hickory
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Democrat .
Post Office
Moyock
Plymouth
Roseboro
Elizabetntown
Tuxedo
Asheville
Goldsboro
Wadesboro
North Wilkesboro
Gibson
Rocky Point
Lexington
Tarboro
Salisbury
Greenville
Sanford
Wilson
Rutherfordton
Albemarle
Lumberton
Waynesville
Kenly
Bakersville
Louisburg
Edenton
Reidsville
Democrat Morganton
Democrat Winston-Salem
Concord
Durham
Raleigh
Asheboro
Garysburg
Charlotte
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Senators — Con tinned
Name
District
Party
Post Office
Land, E. M
Twenty-fifth
Democrat
Democrat
Democrat
Democrat
Democrat
Democrat
Democrat
Democrat
Democrat
Democrat
Democrat
Democrat
Democrat
States ville
Long, Dr. T. W. M.
Fourth
Roanoke Rapids
MacLean, A. D
Second
Washington
Twelfth..
Raeford
MeDuffee, D. P...
Fourteenth
Henderson
McNeill, George
Tenth
Fayette ville
McNeill, P. T.
Twenty-ninth
West Jefferson
Moore, Larry I. .
Seventh
New Bern
Noell, J. W
Fifteenth.
Roxboro
Patton, R. A
Thirtv-third
Franklin
Rankin, R. Grady
Twenty-sixth
Gastonia
Sparger, S. Gilmer
Twenty-third
Danbury
Summersill, E. W
Seventh
Jacksonville
Walker, D. J
Sixteenth
Burlington
Waynick, C. P
Seventeenth
High Point
SENATORS
(Arranged by Districts)
(Democrats except otherwise indicated)
first District— D. W. Bagley, Moyock; L. E. Griffin, Edenton.
Seco7id District — C. L. Bailey, Plymouth; A. D. MacLean, Wash-
ington.
Third District — W. H. Joyner, Garysburg.
Fourth District— W. G. Clark, Tarboro; Dr. T. W. M. Long,
Roanoke Rapids.
Fifth Dist7-ict — A. B. Corey, Greenville.
Sixth District — E. F. Griffin, Louisburg; J. C. Dempsey, Wilson.
Seventh District — Larry I. Moore, New Bern; E. W. Summersill,
Jacksonville.
Eighth District— D. H. Bland, Goldsboro; Paul D. Grady, Kenly.
Ninth District — W. A. Brown, Rocky Point; J. Abner Barker,
Roseboro.
Tenth District — George McNeill, Fayetteville; J. D. Beatty, Jr.,
Elizabethtown.
Eleventh District — David H. Fuller, Lumberton.
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Tioelfth District — Ryan McBryde, Raeford; Henry L. Ingram,
Asheboro.
Thirteenth District — T. S. Cross, Sanford; J. W. Hinsdale, Raleigh.
Fourteenth District — D. P. McDuffee, Henderson.
Fifteenth District — J. W. Noell, Roxboro.
Sixteenth District — John Sprunt Hill, Durham; D. J. Walker,
Burlington.
Seventeenth District— C. M. Wayniek, High Point; Allen H.
Gwyn, Reidsville.
Eighteenth District — L. M. Blue, Gibson; W. 0. Burgin, Lexington.
Nineteenth District — W. K. Boggan, Wadesboro; Crayon C. Eflrd,
Albemarle.
Twentieth District— L,. T. Hartsell, Jr., Concord; T. D. Kirkpatrick,
Charlotte.
Twenty-first District — Hay den Clement, Salisbury.
Twenty-second District — R. M. Hanes, Winston-Salem.
Twenty-third District — S. Gilmer Sparger, Walnut Cove.
Twenty-fourth District— J. M. Blackburn, N. Wilkesboro (R).
Twenty-fifth District — John W. Aiken, Hickory; E. M. Land,
Statesville.
Twenty-sixth District — R. Grady Rankin, Gastonia.
Twenty-seventh District — Stover P. Dunagan, Rutherfordton; J. 0.
Bell, Tuxedo.
Twenty-eighth District — E. M. Hairfield, Morganton.
Twenty-ninth District — P. T. McNeill, W. Jefferson.
Thirtieth District — George L. Greene, Bakersville (R).
Thirty- fir st District — C. E. Blackstock, Asheville.
Thirty-second District — W. Roy Francis, Waynesville.
Thirty-third District — R. A. Patton, Franklin.
SENATORIAL DISTRICTS
Ch. 161, P. L. 1921
First District — Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Hertford, Pas-
quotank and Perquimans counties shall elect two senators.
Second District— Beaufort, Dare, Hyde, Martin, Pamlico, Tyrrell
and Washington shall elect two senators.
Third District — Bertie and Northampton shall elect one senator.
Fourth District — Edgecombe and Halifax shall elect two senators.
16 Legislative Department
Fifth District — Pitt shall elect one senator.
Sixth District — Franklin, Nash, and Wilson shall elect two
senators.
Seventh District — Carteret, Craven, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, and
Onslow shall elect two senators.
Eighth District — Johnson and Wayne shall elect two senators.
Ninth District — Duplin, New Hanover, Pender and Sampson shall
elect two senators.
Tenth District — Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus and Cumberland
shall elect two senators.
Eleventh District — Robeson shall elect one senator
Twelfth District — Harnett, Hoke, Moore and Randolph shall elect
two senators.
Thirteenth District — Chatham, Lee and Wake shall elect two
senators.
Fourteenth District — Vance and Warren shall elect one senator.
Fifteenth District — Granville and Person shall elect one senator.
Sixteenth District — Alamance, Caswell, Durham and Orange shall
elect two senators.
Seventeenth District — Guilford and Rockingham shall elect two
senators.
Eighteenth District — Davidson, Montgomery, Richmond, and Scot-
land shall elect two senators.
Nineteenth District — Anson, Stanly and Union shall elect two
senators.
Twentieth District — Cabarrus and Mecklenburg shall elect two
senators.
Twenty-first District — Rowan shall elect one senator.
Twenty-second District — Forsyth shall elect one senator.
Twenty-third District — Stokes and Surry shall elect one senator.
Twenty-fourth District — Davie, Wilkes and Yadkin shall elect
one senator.
Twenty-fifth District — Catawba, Iredell and Lincoln shall elect
two senators.
Twenty-sixth District — Gaston shall elect one senator.
Twenty-seventh District — Cleveland, Henderson, McDowell, Polk
and Rutherford shall elect two senators.
Twenty-eighth District — Alexander, Burke and Caldwell shall elect
one senator.
Senate Committees 17
Twenty-ninth District — Alleghany, Ashe and Watauga shall elect
one senator.
Thirtieth District— Avery, Madison, Mitchell and Yancey shall
elect one senator.
Thirty-first District — Buncombe shall elect one senator.
Thirty-second District — Haywood, Jackson and Transylvania shall
elect one senator.
Thirty-third District — Cherokee, Clay, Graham. Macon and Swain
shall elect one senator.
SENATE COMMITTEES SESSION 1933
Agriculture — Senators Blue, chairman; Brown, McBryde, Hill,
Aiken, Hairfield, McNeill of Ashe, Patton, McDuffee, Land, Bagley,
Joyner, McNeill of Cumberland, "Waynick, Clark.
Appropriations — Senators Clement, chairman; Rankin, Long, Mc-
Neill of Cumberland, Cross, Hill, Gwyn, Burgin, Land, Francis,
Blackburn, Kirkpatrick, Bagley. Clark, Hairfield.
Banks and Currency — Senators Hill, chairman; Bailey, Moore,
Barker, Ingram, McDuffee, Gwyn, Burgin, Hartsell, Hanes, Rankin,
Bell, Blackstock, Greene.
Caswell Training School — Senators Corey, chairman; Bailey, Joy-
ner, Barker, Noell, Boggan, Hairfield, McNeill of Ashe, Patton.
Claims — Senators Cross, chairman; Bagley, Joyner, Summersill,
Beatty, Walker, Boggan, Sparger, McNeill of Ashe, Patton.
Labor and Commerce — Senators Boggan, chairman; Griffin of
Chowan, Corey, Dempsey, McNeill of Cumberland, Cross, Waynick,
Efird, Kirkpatrick, Rankin, Blackstock, Patton.
Commercial Fisheries — Senators Griffin of Chowan, chairman:
Bagley, Joyner, Griffin of Franklin, Summersill, Brown, Barker,
Beatty, Noell, Blue, Hartsell, Sparger, Bell, Greene, Francis.
Congressional Districts — Senators Bailey, chairman; Bagley
Dempsey, Bland, Griffin of Franklin, Gwyn, Walker, Fuller, Bog-
gan, Hartsell, Aiken, Francis.
Conservation and Development — Senators Burgin, chairman; Grit-
fin of Chowan, Clark, Moore, Grady, McBryde, Hinsdale, Walker,
Clement, Blackburn, Rankin, Dunagan, Hairfield.
18 Legislative Department
Consolidated Statutes — Senators Barker, chairman; Bailey, Corey,
Summersill, Grady, McDuffee, Walker, Burgin, Sparger, Land.
Constitutional Amendments — Senators Waynick, chairman; Clark,
Moore, Bland, Grady, McNeill of Cumberland, Fuller, Cross, Noell,
Hill, MacLean, Kirkpatrick, Clement, Hanes, Land, Dunagan, Black-
stock, Greene, Aiken.
Corporation Commission — Senators Moore, chairman; Bailey,
Clark, Corey, Bland, Waynick, Boggan, Efird, McNeill of AsEe.
Corporations — Senators McNeill of Ashe, chairman; Grady, Bar-
ker, Beatty, Hinsdale, Walker, Sparger, Blackstock.
Counties, Cities, and Toicns — Senators Dunagan, chairman; Mc-
Duffee, Ingram, Dempsey, Blackstock, Summersill, Joyner, Brown,
McNeill of Cumberland, McBryde, Walker, Blue, Efird, Hanes, Bell,
Long.
Courts and Judicial Districts — Senators Aiken, chairman; Long,
Griffin of Franklin, McLean, Summersill, Beatty, Hinsdale, Gwyn,
Land, Dunagan.
Distribution of Governor's Message — Senators Bagley, chairman;
Clark, Dempsey, Ingram, Efird.
Education — Senators MacLean, chairman; Griffin of Chowan,
Moore, Grady, Beatty, Noell, Efird, Kirkpatrick, Sparger, Bell,
Francis, Blackburn, Clark, Land, Ingram, Greene, Corey, Blue.
Election Laws — Senators Walker, chairman; Griffin of Chowan,
Joyner, Long, Moore, Brown, McNeill of Cumberland, Noell, Sparger,
McNeill of Ashe, Greene.
Engrossed Bills — Senators Hartsell, chairman; Joyner, Corey,
Cross, Waynick, Blue, Boggan, Blackburn.
Enrolled Bills — Senators Efird, chairman; Bailey, Griffin of Frank-
lin, Barker, Aiken, Bell, Greene.
Federal Relations — Senators Kirkpatrick, chairman; MacLean,
Moore, Bland, McDuffee, Noell, Waynick, Blue, Clement, Hairfield.
Finance — Senators Rankin, chairman; Clement, MacLean, Sum-
mersill, Fuller, Ingram, Hinsdale, McDuffee, Waynick, Burgin,
Hanes, Aiken, Dunagan, Blackstock, Greene, Griffin of Franklin,
Noell.
Game Laws — Senators Fuller, chairman; Bagley, Joyner, Griffin
of Franklin, Summersill, Brown, Beatty, McBryde, Cross, Blue,
Efird, Hanes, Bell, Ingram, Patton.
Senate Committees 19
Immigration — Senators Bell, chairman; Clark, Griffin of Frank-
lin, Barker, Kirkpatrick, Patton.
Insane Asylums — Senators Hairfield, chairman; Bagley, Clark,
Long, Bland, Brown, Hinsdale, Gwyn, Blue, Sparger, Francis.
Institutions for the Blind — Senators Efird, chairman; Griffin of
Chowan, Corey, Summersill, Grady, McNeill of Cumberland, Burgin.
Institutions for the Deaf — Senators Noell, chairman; Dempsey,
Barker, McBryde, Walker, Boggan, Kirkpatrick, Bell.
Insurance — Senators Hanes, chairman; MacLean, Griffin of Frank-
lin, Bland, Beatty, Fuller, Cross, McBryde, Waynick, Burgin, Hart-
sell, Blackburn.
Internal Improvements — Senators Sparger, chairman; Bagley,
MacLean, Moore, McNeill of Cumberland, Hinsdale, Blue, Clement,
Blackburn.
Journal — Senators Patton, chairman; Bailey, Clark, Dempsey,
Brown, Ingram, Hill, Sparger, McNeill of Ashe.
Judiciary No. 1 — Senators Hinsdale, chairman; Griffin of Chowan,
MacLean, Griffin of Franklin, Moore, Bland, Fuller, McDuffee, Gwyn,
Hartsell, Clement, Aiken, Dunagan, Barker, Francis, Blackburn.
Judiciary No. 2 — Senators Grady, chairman; Bailey, Corey, Hair-
field, Summersill, Walker, Burgin, Kirkpatrick, Sparger, Land,
Beatty, Blackstock, Greene, Boggan.
Justices of the Peace — Senators McNeill of Cumberland, chairman;
Patton, McNeill of Ashe, Aiken, Boggan, Walker, Fuller, Brown,
Joyner.
Library — Senators Beatty, chairman; Griffin of Chowan, Long,
McBryde, Waynick, Hartsell, Rankin, Blackstock.
Manufacturing — Senators McBryde, chairman; Clark, Corey,
Brown, Cross, Gwyn, Efird, Bell.
Military Affairs — Senators Dempsey, chairman; Bagley, Bailey,
Blackstock, Corey, Cross, Dunagan, Efird, Fuller, Francis, Griffin of
Franklin, Griffin of Chowan, Gwyn, Hanes, Ingram, McDuffee, Way-
nick, Aiken.
Penal Institutions — Senators Joyner, chairman; Griffin of Chowan,
Clark, Ingram, Hanes, Dunagan, Hairfield, Long.
Printing — Senators Noell, chairman; Joyner, Long, Brown,
Beatty, McBryde, Hinsdale, Waynick, Hartsell.
Pensions and, Soldiers' Homes — Senators Bland, chairman; Joyner,
Dempsey, Grady, McDuffee, Hill, Blue, Boggan.
20 I.I '.Isl. A I 1VK DePAKTMENT
Propositions and Grievances — Senators McDuffee, chairman;
Griffin of Franklin, Bland, McNeill of Cumberland, McBryde, Hart-
sell, Sparger, Francis.
Public Health — Senators Long, chairman; Bagley, Brown, In-
gram, Walker, Burgin, Kirkpatrick, Blackburn, McNeill of Ashe.
Public Roads — Senators Gwyn, chairman; McDuffee, Fuller, Kirk-
patrick, Dunagan, Hill, Bell, Aiken, Bailey, Dempsey, Moore, Clem-
ent, Burgin.
Railroads — Senators Francis, chairman; MacLean, Corey, Grady,
Beatty, Cross, Clement, Land.
Rules — Senators Clark, chairman; Long, Griffin of Franklin, Mc-
Duffee, Walker, Gwyn, Burgin, Clement, Hanes, Land, Rankin.
Salaries and Fees — Senators Blackstock, chairman; Bagley, Way-
nick, Burgin, Hanes, Rankin, Greene.
Senatorial Districts — Senators Griffin of Franklin, chairman;
Moore, Grady, Barker, McDuffee, Boggan, Kirkpatrick, McNeill of
Ashe.
Senate Expenditures — Senators Summersill, chairman; Corey,
Brown, McBryde, Efird, Bell.
Trustees of the University — Senators Land, chairman; Beatty,
Clement, Efird, Francis, Griffin of Franklin, Hanes, Hill, Long,
Waynick, Patton, Clark, Bagley.
Public Welfare — Senators Ingram, chairman; Dempsey, Summer-
sill, Beatty, Ingram, Hill, Blackburn.
Water Commerce — Senators Brown, chairman; MacLean, Grady,
Fuller, Noell, Blue, Hairfield, Bagley.
Special Joint Committee
Reorganization of State Government — Senators Moore, chairman;
Hanes, MacLean.
Salaries and Personnel of State Departments — Senators Blackstock,
chairman; McNeill of Cumberland, Corey.
OFFICERS AND MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES
OFFICERS
R. L. Harris Speaker _ Person
Thad Edre Principal Clerk Hertford
John H. McKinnon - Reading Clerk .Robeson
C. M. Higgins Sergeant-at-Arms Davidson
Mrss Rosa B. Mund Engrossing Clerk Cabarrus
REPRESENTATIVES
(Alphabetically Arranged)
Name
Allen, Claude W
Arndt, Herbert L
Aycock, Charles Brantley
Ayeock, J. R
Barden, G. A
Bean, J. W
Beaslev, Roland F
Bender, R. P
Berryman, W. J
Binford, H. N
Boswell, F. W
Bowie, T. C....
Boyd, Basil M
Braddy, C. L
Brawlev, S. C
Brock, B. C
Brown, W. T
Cameron, A. B
Cherry, R. G...
Coffey, F. H
Cover, G. W„ Jr
Cowles, Charles H
Cox, R. M
Crews, N. S
Culpepper, W. T
Davis, George E
Dees, Julius G
Doughton, R. A
Douglass, S. E
Dowtin, J. A..
Eagles, W. W
Eaton, T. R
Edwards, John R
English, N. C.
Etheridge, R. B
Everett, R.
Ewing, W. C.
Falkner, 0. S
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Edenton
Spray
Wilson
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Charlotte
Council
Durham
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Hertford
Carthage
Gastonia
Lenoir
Andrews
Wilkesboro
Winston-Salem
Winston-Salem
Elizabeth City
Lake Landing
Bayboro
Sparta
Raleigh
Warrenton
Macclesfield
Yadkinville
Greenville
Trinity
Manteo
Durham
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Legislative Department
Representatives— Continued
Name
Flanagan, E. G
Froneberger, P. C
Galloway, M. W
Gardner, E. A
Garibaldi, Joe
Garrou, Francis L...
Gatling, G. D.___
Gattis, S. M.,Jr
Gilliam, J. W., Jr
Gradv, C. Gilbert
Graeber, C. H
Graham, Ernest
Grant, L. Clayton
Greene, Tipton S
Greer, R. T
Griffin, Clarence
Groves, J. A
Hamilton, Luther..
Harris, R. L
Haynes, C. H
Howell, James H _.
Hoyle, T. C, Jr
Hutchins, Charles
Ingram, Charles
James, Allison
Johnson, R. G
Johnson, V. R
Ledford, Glover P
Lee, Dr. J. Marshall
Lumpkin, W. L
McEachern, Laurie.
McLauchlin, D. L
Makepeace ,0. P
Martin, Julius C
Massenburg ,J.S
Mebane, Mrs. Lily C. M.
Mizzell.C. E
Monroe, D. A
Moore, J. Tracy
Morphew, R. B
Moss, 0. B
Moye.J. C
Murphy, Walter
Neal, W. W
Newman, Harriss
Oaks, W. G
O'Berrv, Thomas
Olive, Hubert E
Phillips, A. R
Pope, R. Hunter
County
Pitt...
Gaston.
Transylvania..
Cleveland
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Burke
Gates
Orange
Alamance
Johnston
Cabarrus
Robeson
New Hanover.
Mitchell
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Stanly
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Sampson.
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Lee
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Rockingham.
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Greenville
Gastonia
Brevard
Shelby
Charlotte
Valdese
Gates
Hillsboro
Altamahaw
Four Oaks
Kannapolis
Red Springs
Wilmington
Bakersville
Blowing Rock
Forest City
Albemarle
Morehead City
Roxboro
Mount Airy
Waynesville
Greensboro
Burnsville
Franklin
Winston-Salem
Burgaw
Pittsboro
Hayesville
Newton Grove
Franklinton
Raeford
Wagram
Sanford
Ashevillc
Tryon
Spray
Roper
Biscoe
Greensboro
Robbinsville
Spring Hope
Snow Hill
Statesville
Marion
Wilmington
Elk Park
Goldsboro
Lexington
Dalton
Enfield
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Representatives — Continued
Name
Randolph, John P...
Ray, T. R
Rouse, Robert H
Ruark, J. W
Scarborough, D. E
Sigmon, W. H
Smith, J. C
Sprinkle , Herschel
Spruill, C. W
Stevens, L. L
Sullivan, W. A
Tatem.C. W
Taylor, F. N...
Taylor, H. L
Taylor, J. A._
Thomas, F. E
Thompson, Marshall A...
Thompson, W. A
Thompson, W. Avery
Tompkins, D. D
Turner. D. E
Turner, Thomas, Jr
V'ann, J. N
Warlick, John D
Watson, Van S
White, R. Jennings
Williams, H. D
Wilson, Robt. T
Woodall, Preston
Woodfin, J. F
Womble, Brantley
Young, J. R
Countv
Swain
Henderson...
Lenoir
Brunswick...
Richmond. __
Lincoln
Martin
Madison
Bertie
Camden
Buncombe...
Tyrrell
Halifax
Mecklenburg.
Currituck
Anson
Robeson
Beaufort
Columbus...
Jackson
Iredell
Guilford
Hertford
Onslow
Nash
Northampton
Duplin
Caswell
Johnston
Alexander
Wake
Harnett
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Bryson City
Hendersonville
Kinston
Southport
Rockingham
Denver
Robersonville
Marshall
Windsor
Indiantown
Asheville
Columbia
Enfield, R. I". I).
Charlotte
Maple
Wadesboro
Maxton
Aurora
Hallsboro
Sylva
States ville
High Point
Ahoskie
Jacksonville
Rocky Mount
Conway
Kenansville
Yanceyville
Benson
Taylorsville, Rt. 3
Raleigh
REPRESENTATIVES
(Arranged by Counties)
(Democrats except otherwise indicated)
Alamance — J. W. Gilliam, Jr., Altamahaw.
Alexander — J. F. Woodfin, Taylorsville, R. 3.
Alleghany — R. A. Doughton, Sparta.
Anson — F. E. Thomas, Wadesboro.
Ashe— T. C. Bowie, W. Jefferson.
Avery— W. G. Oaks, Elk Park (R).
Beaufort — W. A. Thompson, Aurora.
Bertie— C. W. Spruill, Windsor.
Bladen— C. L. Braddy, Council.
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Brunswick — J. W. Ruark, Southport.
Buncombe — W. A. Sullivan, Asheville; Julius C. Martin, Asheville
Burke — Francis L. Garrou, Valdese.
Cabarrus — C. H. Graeber, Kannapolis.
Caldwell — F. H. Coffey, Lenoir.
Camden — L. L. Stevens, Indiantown.
Carteret — Luther Hamilton, Morehead City.
Caswell — Robert T. "Wilson, Yanceyville.
Catawba — Herbert L. Arndt, Conover.
Chatham — Victor R. Johnson, Pittsboro.
Cherokee — G. W. Cover, Jr., Andrews.
Chowan — W. J. Berryman, Edenton.
Clay — Glover P. Ledford, Hayesville (R).
Cleveland — Ernest Gardner, Shelby.
Columbus — W. Avery Thompson, Hallsboro.
Craven — G. A. Barden, New Bern.
Cumberland — W. C. Ewing, Fayetteville.
Currituck — James A. Taylor, Maple.
Dare — R. B. Etheridge, Manteo.
Davidson — H. E. Olive, Lexington.
Davie — B. C. Brock, Mocksville (R).
Duplin — H. D. Williams, Kenansville.
Durham — R. 0. Everett, Durham; S. C. Brawley, Durham.
Edgecombe — W. W. Eagles, Macclesfield.
Forsyth — R. M. Cox, Winston-Salem; Allison James, Winston
Salem; Nat S. Crews, Winston-Salem.
Franklin — W. L. Lumpkin, Franklinton.
Gaston — R. G. Cherry, Gastonia; P. C. Froneberger, Gastonia.
Gates— G. D. Gatling, Gates.
Graham — R. B. Morphew, Robbinsville.
Granville — Claude Allen, Creedrnoor.
Greene — J. C. Moye, Snow Hill.
Guilford— Thos. Turner, Jr., High Point; T. C. Hoyle, Jr., Greens-
boro; J. Tracy Moore, Greensboro.
•Halifax — R. Hunter Pope, Enfield; F. M. Taylor, Enfield, R. F. D.
Harnett — J. R. Young, Dunn.
Haywood — Hardin Howell, Waynesville.
Henderson— T. R. Ray, Hendersonville.
Hertford — J. N. Vann, Ahoskie.
Members of House of Representatives 2.">
Hoke — Laurie McEachern, Raeford.
Hyde — George E. Davis, Lake Landing.
Iredell — D. E. Turner, Mooresville.
Jackson — Dan Tompkins, Sylva.
Johnston — Preston Woodall, Benson; C. Gilbert Grady, Four Oaks.
Jones — R. P. Bender, Pollocksville.
Lee — 0. P. Makepeace, Sanford.
Lenoir — Robert H. Rouse, Kinston.
Lincoln — W. H. Sigmon, Denver.
Macon — Charles L. Ingram, Franklin.
Madison — Herschel Sprinkle, Marshall (R).
Martin — J. C. Smith, Robersonville.
McDowell— -W. W. Neal, Marion.
Mecklenburg— Joe Garibaldi, Charlotte; H. L. Taylor, Charlotte;
Basil M. Boyd, Charlotte.
Mitchell— Tipton S. Greene, Bakersville (R).
Montgomery — D. A. Monroe, Biscoe (R).
Moore — A. B. Cameron, Carthage.
Nash— 0. B. Moss, Spring Hope; Van S. Watson, Rocky Mount.
New Hanover — Harriss Newman, Wilmington; L. Clayton Grant.
Wilmington.
Northampton — R. Jennings White, Conway.
Onslow — John D. Warlick, Jacksonville.
orange— S. M. Gattis, Jr., Hillsboro.
Pamlico — Julius G. Dees, Bayboro.
Pasquotank— W. T. Culpepper, Elizabeth City.
Pender — R. G. Johnson, Burgaw.
Perquimans — W. T. Brown, Hertford.
Person — R. L. Harris, Roxboro.
p;^_E. G. Flanagan, Greenville; Jack Edwards, Greenville.
Polk — J. S. Massenburg, Tryon.
Randolph— N. C. English, Trinity.
Richmond — D. E. Scarborough, Rockingham.
Robeson— Ernest Graham. Red Springs; Marshall A. Thompson.
Maxton.
Rockingham— H. N. Binford, Madison; Mrs. Lillie M. Mebane.
Spray.
Roioan— Walter Murphy, Salisbury; J. W. Bean, Spencer.
Rutherford— Clarence Griffin, Forest City.
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Sampson — Dr. J. M. Lee, Newton Grove.
Scotland — D. L. McLauchlin, Wagram.
Stanly — J. A. Groves, Albemarle.
Stokes — Albert R. Phillips, Dalton.
surry — C. H. Haynes, Mt. Airy.
Strain — J. P. Randolph, Bryson City.
Transylvania — M. W. Galloway, Brevard.
Tyrrell — C. W. Tatem, Columbia.
Union — R. F. Beasley, Monroe.
Vance — 0. S. Falkner, Henderson.
Wake — Chas. B. Aycock, Raleigh; Brantley Womble, Raleigh; Dr.
S. E. Douglass, Raleigh.
Warren — J. A. Dowtin, Warrenton.
Washington — C. E. Mizzell, Roper.
Watauga — R. T. Greer, Blowing Rock.
Wayne — Thos. O'Berry, Goldsboro; J. R. Aycock. Fremont.
Wilkes— Chas. H. Cowles, Wilkesboro (R).
Wilson— F. W. Boswell, Wilson.
Yadkin— T. R. Eaton, Yadkinville (R).
Yancey — Charles Hutchins, Burnsville.
HOUSE COMMITTEES
(Alphabetically arranged)
Agriculture — Messrs. McEachern, chairman; Cox, Williams, Sig-
mon, Ewing, Allen, Spruill, Vann, Davis, Pope, Gilliam, Aycock of
Wayne, Binford. Boswell, Eagles, Braddy, Falkner, Watson, Greer,
Garibaldi, Ingram, Arndt, Monroe.
Appropriations — Messrs. Newman, chairman; Graham, Doughton
of Alleghany, Allen, Bowie, Turner of Iredell, Garrou, Lumpkin.
Lee, Bender, Martin, Barden, Morphew, Hoyle, Griffin, Everett,
Brown, Gatling, Murphy, McEachern, Taylor of Mecklenburg,
Tatem, Moye, Rouse, Haynes, Hutchins, James, McLauchlin, Brock,
Greene.
Banks and Banking — Messrs. Etheridge, chairman; Flanagan,
Greer, Coffey, Cherry, Aycock of Wake, Haynes, Massenburg, Vann,
Eagles, Hutchins, Groves, Newman, Hoyle, Lumpkin, Makepeace,
Committees of the House 27
McEachern, O'Berry, Brawley, Olive, Cover, Randolph, Woodall,
Ledford.
Caswell Training School — Messrs. Rouse, chairman; Thompson of
Beaufort, Lee, Bardin, English, Dees, Aycock of "Wayne, Boswell,
Hamilton, Mizzelle and Moye.
Claims — Messrs. Ruark, chairman; Thompson of Robeson, Arndt,
Bender, Groves, Berryman, Griffin, Boyd, Ingram, Bean, English,
Falkner, Binford.
Commerce — Messrs. Tatem, chairman; Thompson of Columbus,
Ray, Wilson, Howell, Thompson of Beaufort, Pope, Dowtin of War-
ren, Cox, Phillips.
Commercial Fisheries — Messrs. Thompson of Beaufort, chairman;
Ruark, Barden, Tatem, Taylor of Currituck, Davis, Brown, Arndt,
Dees, Grant, Gatling, O'Berry, Bender, Warlick, Moye, Eaton.
Congressional Districts — Messrs. Lumpkin, chairman; Johnson of
Chatham, McLauchlin, Gardner, Cover, Thompson of Robeson, Arndt,
Greer, Olive, Barden, Stevens, Graham, Cowles.
Conservation and Development — Messrs. Ewing, chairman; Flan-
agan, Smith, Mizzelle, Garibaldi, Coffey, Williams, Etheridge, Braw-
ley, Randolph, Pope, Lee, Falkner, Thomas, Martin, Sigmon, Thomp-
son of Robeson.
Constitutional Amendments — Messrs. Murphy, chairman; Aycock
of Wake, Everett, Moss, Allen, Doughton of Alleghany, Grant, Mar-
tin, Cherry, Coffey, Gattis, Makepeace, Beasley, Massenburg, Cul-
pepper, Wilson, O'Berry, Cowles.
Corporation Commission — Messrs. Hutchins, chairman; Johnson of
Chatham, Grady, Culpepper, Womble, James, Eagles, Moss, Graeber,
Braddy, Stevens.
Corporations — Messrs. Grant, chairman; Randolph, Garrou, Olive,
English, Williams, Howell, Cover, Makepeace, Graham.
Counties, Cities, and Toicns — Messrs. Neal, chairman; Ewing,
Thompson of Columbus, Turner of Iredell, Greer, Boswell, Johnson
of Pender, Bean, Sullivan, Dowtin of Warren, Cox, Tompkins, Tay-
lor of Halifax, Douglass, Wilson, Hutchins, Haynes, Howell, Watson,
Woodall, Brock.
Courts and Judicial Districts — Messrs. Young, chairman; Moss,
Turner of Guilford, Hamilton, Bowie, Boyd, Gattis, Crews, Lumpkin.
Johnsoii of Chatham, Everett, Gardner, Thompson of Beaufort,
Edwards, Cowles.
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Drainage — Messrs. Davis, chairman; Braddy, Edwards, Taylor of
Currituck, Dees, Woodall, Mizzell, Ruark, Scarborough, Culpepper,
Rouse.
Education — Messrs. Graham, chairman; Beasley, Stevens, Ewing,
Mrs. Mebane, Martin, Phillips, Gilliam, Johnson of Chatham, Eng-
lish, Ray, Smith, Boswell, Cameron, Tompkins, McEachern, Moss,
Aycock of Wake, Aycock of Wayne, Pope, Spruill, James, Moore,
Gardner, Thompson of Columbus, Oaks.
Election Laws — Messrs, Bowie, chairman; Ewing, Thompson of
Columbus, Morphew, Cover, Womble, Gardner, Grady, Haynes, Neal,
Ray, Wilson, Edwards, Young, Froneberger, Lumpkin, Vann, Mas-
senburg, Monroe.
Engrossed, Bills — Messrs. Gatling, chairman; Dees, Sullivan, Ray,
Taylor of Currituck, Bean, Graeber, Galloway, Beasley, Aycock of
Wayne.
Expenditures of the House — Messrs. Garibaldi, chairman; Taylor
of Halifax, Ingram, Graeber, Lee, Douglass, Cameron, Falkner,
Newman, Gatling, Greene.
Federal Relations — Messrs. Johnson of Chatham, chairman; Mur-
phy, Rouse, Williams, Crews, Taylor of Halifax, Brawley, Moore,
Mrs. Mebane, Woodfin, Gattis.
Finance — Messrs. Doughton of Alleghany, chairman; Cherry,
Flanagan, Moss, Newman, Coffey, White, Johnson of Pender, Vann,
Neal, O'Berry, Young, Groves, Cox, Ewing, Olive, Greer, Warlick.
Turner of Guilford, Murphy, Etheridge, Womble, Brawley, Gari-
baldi, Culpepper, Gattis, Sullivan, Makepeace. Wilson, Monroe,
Eaton.
Game — Messrs. Makepeace, chairman; Ewing, Taylor of Currituck,
Smith, Etheridge, Thompson of Columbus, Rouse. Allen, Mizzell,
Tompkins, Woodfin, Stevens, Neal, Braddy, Haynes, Watson,
Spruill, Greer, Ingram, Boyd, Monroe.
Health — Messrs. Gattis, chairman; Lee, Douglass, James, Moye,
Lumpkin, Rouse, Galloway, Taylor of Halifax, Howell, Garibaldi,
Grant, Oaks.
Immigration — Messrs. Braddy, chairman; Groves, Griffin, Hoyle,
Scarborough, Cameron, Berryman, White, Ruark, Phillips, Randolph,
Oaks.
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Insane Asylums — Messrs. Sigmon, chairman; Garibaldi, Garrou,
Aycock of Wayne, Lee, Douglass, Ingram, Galloway, Tompkins,
Williams, Froneberger, Mrs. Mebane, Bean, Oaks.
Institutions for tlie Blind — Messrs. Woodall, chairman; John-
son of Chatham, Mizzell, McLauchlin, Cameron, Edwards, Thomas,
Moye, Braddy, Berryman, Brown, Ledford.
Institutions for the Deaf and Dumb — Messrs. Haynes, chairman:
Coffey, Garrou, Phillips, Gatling, Eagles, Gilliam, Thompson of
Robeson, Hoyle, Taylor of Currituck, Ingram, Greene.
Insurance — Messrs. Johnson of Pender, chairman; Makepeace,
Hoyle, Taylor of Mecklenburg, Olive, Morphew, O'Berry, Hamilton,
Barden, Crews, Moss, Neal, Coffey, Groves, Graham, Gilliam, Cowles.
Internal Improvements — Messrs. Thompson of Columbus, chair-
man; Grant, Boyd, Edwards, Turner of Iredell, Scarborough, Dow-
tin of Warren, Arndt, Pope, Douglass.
The Journal — Messrs. Turner of Iredell, chairman; Thomas,
Dees, Bender, Newman, Rouse, White, Aycock of Wake, Spruill,
Gatling, Aycock of Wayne.
Judiciary, No. 1 — Messrs. Moss, chairman ; Gattis, Brawley, John-
son of Pender, Grant, Young, Bender, Olive, Taylor of Mecklenburg,
Smith, Martin, Johnson of Chatham, Aycock of Wake, Thomas,
Murphy, Hutchins, Cherry, Crews, Lumpkin, Scarborough, Hamil-
ton, Barden, Brock.
Judiciary, No. 2 — Messrs. Turner of Guilford, chairman; Warlick.
Bowie, Everett, Hoyle, Massenburg, Williams, Morphew, Gardner,
Randolph, Womble, Dees, Froneberger, Grady, Ruark, White,
Thompson of Beaufort, Boyd, Rouse, Howell, Edwards, Sullivan,
Wilson, Cowles.
Manufactures and Labor — Messrs. Groves, chairman; James.
Taylor of Halifax, Bean, McEachern, Mrs. Mebane, Garrou, Johnson
of Pender, Coffey, Graham, English, Graeber, Froneberger, Neal,
Allen, Sigmon, Oaks.
Military Affairs — Messrs. Warlick, chairman; Allen, McLauchlin,
Rouse, Moore, Olive, Young, Barden, Cherry, Gattis, Howell, Mor-
phew, Boyd, Hamilton, Johnson of Chatham.
Oyster Industry — Messrs. Dees, chairman; Brown, Davis, Hamil-
ton, Berryman, Ruark, Thompson of Beaufort, Makepeace, Barden.
Ewing.
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Penal Institutions — Messrs. Flanagan, chairman; Bowie, Gari-
baldi, James, Neal, Woodall, Thompson of Robeson, Dowtin of
Warren, Wilson, Spruill, Hamilton, Ray, Sullivan, Morphew, Ran-
dolph, Eaton.
Pensions — Messrs. Thomas, chairman; Thompson of Robeson,
Thompson of Columbus, Mizzell, Flanagan, Newman, Gatling,
Griffin, McLauchlin, Sprinkle.
Private and Public-Local Laics — Messrs. Scarborough, chairman;
Crews, Gattis, Dees, Howell, Phillips, White, Edwards, Thompson
of Robeson, Ruark.
Privileges and Elections — Messrs. Morphew, chairman; Doughton
of Alleghany, Grant, Bean, Woodfin, Johnson of Pender, Young,
Beasley, Berryman.
Propositions and Grievances — Messrs. Hamilton, chairman; Mor-
phew, Bowie, James, Berryman, Neal, Moye, Cameron, Watson,
Scarborough, Makepeace, Cover, Turner of Iredell, Galloway, Mc-
Lauchlin, Sprinkle.
Public Roads — Messrs. Cherry, chairman; Neal, Doughton of Al-
leghany, Randolph, Grant, Moss, Rouse, Arndt, Graeber, Tatem,
Hamilton, Massenburg, Flanagan, Gattis, Stevens, Gardner, Ruark,
Johnson of Pender, Barden, Turner of Iredell, Moore, Thompson of
Beaufort, Brock.
Public Welfare — Mrs. Mebane, chairman; Messrs. Beasley, Gra-
ham, Murphy, Vann, Garrou, Womble, Etheridge, Olive, Randolph,
Proneberger, Wilson, Allen, Sigmon, Thompson of Columbus, Lee,
Warlick, Gattis, Cameron, Woodall, Eaton.
Regulation of Public-Service Corporations — Messrs. Smith, chair-
man; Makepeace, Thomas, Taylor of Mecklenburg, Froneberger,
Watson, Taylor of Halifax, Turner of Guilford, Morphew, Doughton
of Alleghany, Sprinkle.
Rules — Messrs. Cox, chairman; Brawley, Tatem, Moss, Murphy,
Olive, Doughton of Alleghany, Allen, Bowie, Johnson of Pender, Mar-
tin, Smith, McEachern, Aycock of Wake, Cherry, Ewing, Cowles.
Salaries and Fees — Messrs. Allen, chairman; Flanagan, Hutchins,
Grady, Garibaldi, Falkner, Beasley, Johnson of Pender, James,
Moore, Greer, Taylor of Currituck, Binford, Woodfin, Watson, Brock.
Senatorial Districts — Messrs, Massenburg, chairman; Smith,
Brawley, O'Berry, Neal, Culpepper, Groves, Woodall, Eagles,
Haynes, English, Graham, Olive, Spruill.
Committees of the House :>1
Joint Committees
Enrolled Bills — Messrs. Bender, chairman; Newman, Vann, Bos-
well, Cherry, Warlick, Moss, Turner of Guilford, Woodfin.
Justices of the Peace — Messrs. Moye, chairman; Aycock of Wayne,
Davis, Boswell, Woodall, Binford, Dowtin of Warren, Graeber, Pope,
Scarborough.
Library — Messrs. Greer, chairman; Boswell, Cover, Culpepper.
Dowtin of Warren, English, Gardner, Hoyle, Mrs. Mebane, Turner
of Iredell, Gilliam.
Printing — Messrs. Beasley, chairman; Thompson of Robeson,
Griffin, Tompkins, Howell, Lee, Binford, Falkner, Ray, Phillips,
Womble, Newman.
Public Buildings and Grounds — Messrs. Brown, chairman; Wood-
fin, Cameron, Douglass, Sigmon, Moss, Mizzell, Moore, Young,
Graeber.
Trustees of the University — Messrs. Everett, chairman; Murphy,
Cox, White, Doughton of Alleghany, Coffey, Wilson, Gattis, Moss,
Eagles, Graham, Spruill, Etheridge, Johnson of Pender, Turner of
Guilford.
Revision of Laws — Messrs. Martin, chairman; Froneberger,
Grady, Taylor of Mecklenburg, Turner of Guilford, Murphy, Bowie,
Moss, Gattis.
Special Joint Committee
Reorganization of State Government — Messrs. Brawley, chairman;
Bowie, Cherry, Etheridge, Graham.
Salaries and Personnel of State Departments — Messrs. Allen, James,
Massenburg, Warlick, Watson.
PART II
NEW STATE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS
1. The Department of Labor.
2. Reorganized Board of Agriculture.
3. Highway Commission.
4. Banking Department.
5. Department of Personnel.
6. Division of Purchase and Contract.
7. The Local Government Commission.
8. University Consolidation Commission.
9. Constitutional Commission.
10. Commission for the Improvement of the Laws.
11. State Board of Plumbing and Heating Examiners.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Chapter 312 P. L. 1931
A. L. Fletcher, Commissioner
Title — Commissioner.
Appointment — Elected.
Term — Four- years.
Salary— $4,500.
Ex Officio Member — Board of Advisers Veterans Loan Fund.
Function
The General Assembly of 1931 passed "An Act to Provide for the
Establishment of a Department of Labor and to Prescribe the Powers
and Duties of the Department of Labor and the Commissioner of
Labor."
Under Section 4 of the Act it is provided that the Department
of Labor shall consist of the following officers, divisions and
sections:
A Commissioner of Labor: a Division of Workmen's Compensa-
tion, as a separate and distinct unit: a Division of Standards and
Inspections; a Division of Statistics.
The Division of Standards and Inspections took over the duties,
powers and jurisdiction of the old Child Welfare Commission and
upon the Commissioner of Labor devolved all of the duties and
powers bestowed by Ch. 120, Consolidated Statutes of North Caro-
lina, upon the Commissioner of Labor and Printing and the As-
sistant Commissioner, with the exception that the handling of the
state printing was transferred to the newly created Department of
Purchase and Contract. The Commissioner was designated as the
"executive and administrative head of the Department of Labor."
While the law provides for the operation of the North Carolina
Industrial Commission, created under the provisions of the Work-
men's Compensation Act, Ch. 120, P. L. 1929, "as a separate and dis-
tinct unit," there is authorization for cooperation between the Com-
missioner of Labor and the Industrial Commission in statistical
and inspection work. (Sec. 11, Ch. 231, P. L. 1931.) Under this
provision of the law it will be possible to carry out Section 8 of
the act relative to the collection of statistics necessary for the
proper functioning of the department.
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The Department of Labor is also charged with the administra-
tion of free employment offices, in cooperation with cities and
counties or with the Federal Government.
The Commissioner of Labor is ex officio member of the Board of
Advisers of the Veterans' Loan Fund created by Ch. 155, P. L.
1925. He is also charged with the responsibility of providing
assistance to veterans of the World War in the matter of claims
against the government, as set out in Ch. 288, P. L. 1925.
REORGANIZED BOARD OF AGRICULTURE
Chapter 360, P. Lu, 1931
W. A. Graham, Chairman, Raleigh
Composition — Five members.
Personnel — D. H. Bridgers, Warsaw; George Watts Hill. Durham:
D. Reeves Noland, Crabtree: F. G. Staton, Williamston; Charles
S. Young, Shelby.
Appointment — By the Governor with the consent of the Senate.
Term — Four years, overlapping.
Qualification — One each of the following: tobacco farmer, cotton
farmer, live stock grower, truck farmer, general farmer.
Compensation — $5 per diem and expenses.
Function
The change in the composition of the Board of Agriculture was
made by the General Assembly of 1931 which now consists of
five instead of ten members, together with the Commissioner of
Agriculture, who is chairman. The Board must meet in Raleigh
at least twice a year, and oftener, if called by the- Commissioner.
In addition to the duties now imposed, the Board must manage
and operate the State Fair and has power to make such rules and
regulations as it may deem necessary for the holding and conduct-
ing of said Fair, and /or lease said Fair properties so as to provide
a State Fair. Act in no way affects or limits the authority of the
Commissioner and the new board in the exercise of the authority
and power of the former board in dealing with subjects not specifi-
cally dealt with in the new act.
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NORTH CAROLINA STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION
Chapter 145, P. L. 1931
Composition — Seven members.
Personnel — E. B. Jeffress, Chairman. Raleigh; T. L. Bland, Raleigh;
Chas. A. Cannon, Concord; Jas. H. Clark, Elizabethtown;
Jas. L. McNair, Laurinburg; W. \V. Neal, Marion; Ice-
land H. Kitchin, Scotland Neck.
L. R. Ames, State Highway Engineer, Raleigh.
Commissioners
Appointment — By Governor.
Term — Chairman and three commissioners appointed for four years;
three commissioners for two years.
Compensation — Chairman, $6,000; commissioners, $10.00 per diem.
The State Highway work in North Carolina began in 1915 and
progressed during the intervening years until it reached its climax
in 1931, when, under the provisions of Chapter 145, Public Laws,
1931, all county roads in the State were taken over for maintenance
and all county prisoners serving sixty days or more were placed
under the management of the Highway Commission. This placed
the control and responsibility for all roads in the State upon the
State Highway Commission.
All costs of maintenance, retirement of bonds, and provision for
prisoners is taken care of by revenue from taxes on gasoline and
motor vehicle licenses.
Following the passage of the 1931 Act, the Highway Commission
was reorganized to consist of six commissioners frm the State at
large, and a chairman. A state highway engineer was appointed
and the State was redivided into five divisions for administrative
purposes instead of the previous nine districts for construction pur-
poses. Each of the divisions was divided into five districts with
an engineer in charge of each.
At the present time there are 10,317 miles on the State Highway
System and 46,524 miles on the County System, which is maintained
by the State as outlined above.
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NORTH CAROLINA BANKING DEPARTMENT
Chapter 243, P. L. 1931
Composition — Advisory Commission to the Commissioner of Banks,
five members.
Commissioner of Banks.
Personnel — Chas. M. Johnson, Chairman, Raleigh; Dennis G. Brum-
mitt, Secretary, Raleigh; W. H. Wood, Charlotte; A. H. Bahnson,
Winston-Salem; A. W. McLean, Lumberton — members of the
Advisory Commission.
Gurney P. Hood, Raleigh, Commissioner of Banks.
Advisory Commission
Appointment — Three members appointed by Governor.
State Treasurer and Attorney General, ex officio members, the
State Treasurer serving as Chairman. Appointive members shall
be: two practical bankers, one business man.
Term — Appointees, two years.
Compensation — None.
It is the duty of the Advisory Commission to advise with the
Commissioner of Banks from time to time upon questions of the
administration of the banking laws. The law provides that meet-
ings of the Commission shall be held quarterly and in special ses-
sion at the call of the Governor or upon request of the Commis-
sioner of Banks. Appeals may be made to the Advisory Com-
mission from rulings of the Commissioner of Banks, and the
decisions of such commission shall be final.
Commissioner of Banks
Appointment — By Governor with advice and consent of the Senate.
Term — Four years.
Compensation — $6,000.
Function
The office of Commissioner of Banks was created by the Legislature
of 1931 to take over from the Corporation Commission the super-
vision of banks. All duties formerly exercised by the Corporation
Commission and Chief State Bank Examiner in connection with
the supervision of banks were transferred to the Commissioner of
Banks. New duties were placed upon the Commissioner of Banks
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by placing the supervision and licensing of trust departments in
commercial banks in his hands.
DEPARTMENT OF PERSONNEL
Chapter 277, P. L. 1931
Personnel Director — Frank L. Dunlap.
Assistant Director — Thad Eure.
Appointment Director — By the Governor.
Term — During Term of Governor Making Appointment.
Salary— $6,000.
Function
Created by the General Assembly of North Carolina, Public Laws
1931, Chapter 277:
To make with the heads of departments, bureaus and commis-
sions of the State of North Caarolina, investigation of needs for
personal service, classify and determine the necessary number of
employes, the type and nature of work to be performed and to fix
and determine together with the approval of the Advisory Budget
Commission a standard of salaries and wages to be paid with a
minimum and maximum salary range on an equitable basis for
all persons and positions. From time to time make such changes
in salaries and wages to be paid as facts may justify and require.
Adopt rules and regulations regarding holidays, vacations or sick
leave and all other matters having direct relationship to salaries
to be paid. Classify all new employes filling vacancies, as they
occur from time to time and fix the salaries such new employees
are to receive, and certify to their employment as the necessities of
employment may require. The act does not apply to the Supreme
Court, nor to employees of the State Highway on an hourly basis.
nor to school teachers.
With regard to departments, bureaus, commissions, institutions
and other agencies of government, it is the duty of the department
to approve all payrolls before vouchers are issued for payment,
such payrolls to be checked against budget allotment to such
agencies for such purpose.
The department is further directed to make a general study of
employment with respect to salaries and wages paid public officers.
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DIVISION OF PURCHASE AND CONTRACT
Chapter 261, P. L. 1931
Organization — Division in the Executive Office.
Personnel — A. S. Brower, Director.
Appointment— By Governor.
Term — During pleasure of Governor.
Compensation — Fixed by Governor with approval of Advisory Bud-
get Commission.
Board of Award — The members of the Advisory Budget Commission
serve ex officio as a Board of Award.
Function
The Division of Purchase and Contract was created by the General
Assembly of 1931, and began operation on July 1, 1931.
The purposes of the law are to provide for centralized purchasing
or contracting of supplies for the State's Departments, Institutions
and the Public Schools.
The scope of the law as set out in the opening sections is as
follows:
(a) To canvass all sources of supply, and to contract for the
purchase of all supplies, materials and equipment required by the
State Government, or any of its departments, institutions or agencies
under competitive bidding in the manner hereinafter provided for.
(b) To establish and enforce standard specifications which shall
apply to all supplies, materials and equipment, purchased or to be
purchased for the use of the State Government for any of its de-
partments, institutions or agencies.
(c) To purchase or contract for all telephone, telegraph, electric
light power, postal and any and all other contractual services and
needs of the State Government, or any of its departments, institu-
tions or agencies; or in lieu of such purchase or contract to author-
ize any department, institution or agency to purchase or contract
for any or all such services.
(d) To rent or lease all grounds, buildings, offices, or other
space required by any department, institution or agency of the
State Government, provided, this shall not include temporary
quarters for State Highway field forces or convict camps, or tem-
porary places of storage for road materials.
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(e) To have general supervision of all storerooms and stores
operated by the State Government, or any of its departments, in-
stitutions or agencies; to provide transfer and /or exchange to or
between all State departments, institutions and agencies, or to sell
all supplies, materials and equipment which are surplus, obsolete
or unused; and to maintain inventories of all fixed property and
of all movable equipment, supplies and materials belonging to the
State Government, or any of its departments, institutions or
agencies.
(f) To make provision for and to contract for all State printing,
including all printing, binding, paper stock and supplies or materials
in connection with the same.
In the first place the law provides for a contracting agency rather
than what is usually understood as a purchasing agency. It
provides for canvassing requirements, making contracts with
sources of supply, advertising, giving full details of materials
required, time of delivery, etc., receiving sealed bids and entering
into contracts to meet the needs of the State and the Public Schools;
it makes only incidental provision for miscellaneous purchasing.
Furthermore, the proceedings of the Division of Purchase and Con-
tract and the Budget Commission, acting as a Board of Award, must
be entirely public so that anyone interested may secure complete
information about any particular transaction.
The Division began operation on .July 1, 1931. It has two forms of
contracts :
1. A term contract which covers an estimated or indefinite
amount of material to be delivered when, as, and if needed over a
fixed period of time. There have been executed and certified to
all the using agencies for their use and guidance 249 such con-
tracts. Many of these contracts cover a long list or a large group
of items. For instance, contract No. 180 covers a list of 53 items
of school supplies, each of which in turn is divided up in such a
manner as to make them available in various sizes, weights, etc., and
contract No. 175 covers 29 items of school furniture, each sub-
divided into units to represent different sizes, finishes, materials,
etc. The number of items covered under this style of contract is
very large. An index recently issued contains a list of approximate-
ly 600 items covered by contracts now in force. The items range
from absorbent gauze for hospital use to automobile trucks and
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school bus bodies for hauling 75 school children. When and wnere
suitable this type of contract is used.
2. The second type of contract deals with a specified quantity
to be delivered to a certain place and at a certain time. At each
of the forty odd public lettings there have been long lists of such
items purchased on the basis of sealed competitive bids. This type
of contract is used for those items which do not lend themselves
well to term contracts, and embraces a host of such items as fuel,
most food-stuffs, textiles and such other items on which the prices
fluctuate widely and often. The number of these items is very large
also — the grocery list, issued quarterly, for instance, usually com-
prises about 40 mimeographed pages and Highway items, textile
items and other items falling in or near the commodity group
swell the number to a tremendous figure and run the gamut from
crawler type tractors and steam shovels to fine tooth combs and
safety pins.
Forty formal lettings have been held, with three or more mem-
bers of the Budget Commission present at each letting.
The one question most often asked concerning the Division is
the extent of its savings. To answer this definitely and accurately,
of course, is impossible, because no one could know what would
have taken place under another system, particularly in view of
the fact that prices have been undergoing an almost constant de-
cline. A comparison of prices with those previously paid, even
though much lower, may only represent normal declines in prices,
but fortunately there are certain contracts and items based on
differentials where no element of market decline enters, where a
very fair comparison may be made, and a saving estimated which
cannot be disputed.
In this group of items are included a saving of $200,000 on Gas-
oline, $100,000 on Tires, $50,000 on Fuel, $10,000 on School Bus
Chasses, $2,000 on Chalk and $3,000 on one shipment of Paint alone.
This list might be continued to cover a long list of items, but
suffice it to say with very few and minor exceptions, an examination
would show that prices paid have been lowered by the operation
of open competitive bidding on quantities large enough to be attrac-
tive, where every person, if he so chose, and if he were in a posi-
tion to do so, had an equal chance with his every competitor to
secure the business.
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Purchasing in North Carolina: Early in its operation the Divis-
ion adopted a policy of doing no warehousing itself, but instead re-
quiring local distribution. This policy of the Division in almost all
lines gives North Carolina distributors a decided advantage, since
it is necessary for the outsiders to come into the State and estab-
lish distribution or distribute his products through some existing
agency or merchant within the State. As a result of this policy
practically all of our major contracts are with local people, arid
though the profits that are being made on State contracts are
doubtless extremely low, nevertheless, it is better that whatever
profit is made should remain within the State than be exported.
The Division is always anxious and glad to place a contract with
a North Carolina firm, whether manufacturer or distributor, and
exerts every effort to make it possible for the North Carolina resi-
dents to be placed on a fair and equal footing in meeting com-
petition. The law does not permit more than that.
THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION
Chapter 60, P. L. 1931
Composition: Nine members. The State Auditor, the State
Treasurer and Commissioner of Revenue are members ex officio.
The other six members are appointed by the Governor, one of
whom is the Director of Local Government. The Commission
elects its Chairman and Vice-Chairman from its members. The
State Auditor, the State Treasurer, the Commissioner of Revenue
and the Director of Local Government constitute the Executive
Committee.
Terms of Office: The six members appointed by the Governor
hold office during his pleasure.
Qualifications: One of the appointed members shall have had
experience as the chief executive officer or a member of the gov-
erning body of a city or town, and one thereof shall have had
experience as a member of the governing body of a county at the
time of their appointment.
Compensation: $10.00 per day and expenses. Salary of Director
determined by the Governor with the approval of the Advisory
Budget Commission.
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Personnel: A. J. Maxwell. Chairman, Baxter Durham, Vice-
Chairman, Chas. M. Johnson, Ex Officio Treasurer, \V. E. Easter-
ling, Director of Local Government and Secretary. J. W. Winhorne,
H. E. Rufty, E. B. Horner, W. G. Gaither, K. O. Burgwin.
Function
The Executive Committee is vested with all the powers of
the Commission except when the Commission is in session,
but the Committee cannot over-ride any action of the Com-
mission as a whole, and appeals may be made from action of the
Executive Committee to the whole Commission. The Commission
approves the issuance of all bonds and notes of local units of
government, and sells all such bonds and notes. The Director
requires semi-annual reports of sinking fund investments of local
units and orders liquidation of all such investments which by law
are ineligible. If it appears to the Director that funds of local units
deposited in banks are not under the proper security for the pro-
tection of such deposits as prescribed by law, he shall require such
security The Commission may extend the time of liquidation of
ineligible sinking fund investments and may, upon approval of the
State Commissioner of Banks, extend the time for banks to suffi-
ciently secure deposits with proper security. The Director deter-
mines whether the provisions of law for the raising and main-
tenance and preservation of sinking funds of local units have been
observed, and requires compliance with these provisions. He also
notifies, thirty days in advance, all local units of their maturing
obligations and furnishes annually a statement of debt service re-
quirements for the ensuing fiscal year. The Director approves all
auditing contracts between officials of local units and certified
public accountants for auditing the affairs of such units, and also
approves all bills for the payment of such services rendered. The
County Government Advisory Commission was abolished at the
creation of the Local Government Commission and its duties are
imposed upon the Director. The Director shall visit the local units
of government in the State, and advise and assist the governing
bodies and other officers of said units in providing a competent,
economical and efficient administration; suggest approved methods
for levying and collecting taxes and other revenues; suggest such
changes in the organization of local units of government as will
University Consolidation Commission 45
best promote the public interest, and render assistance in carrying
the same into effect. The Director has the power to devise and
prepare for use in the local units uniform accounting and recording
system and to require their use. The Director approves the bonds
of County Treasurers for county and local district school funds.
UNIVERSITY CONSOLIDATION COMMISSION
Chapter 202, P. L. 1931
Composition — Twelve members.
Personnel — Governor O. Max Gardner, chairman; Fred W. Morrison,
Secretary, Raleigh; Dr. Frank P. Graham, Chapel Hill; Dr.
E. C. Brooks, Raleigh; Dr. J. I. Foust, Greensboro; Dr. L. R.
Wilson, Chapel Hill: Dr. W. C. Riddick, Raleigh; Dr. B. B. Ken-
drick, Greensboro; S. B. Alexander, Charlotte; F. L. Jackson.
Davidson; Mrs. E. L. McKee, Sylva; Miss Easdale Shaw, Rock-
ingham; Judge N. A. Townsend, Charlotte.
Appointment — By the Governor.
Term — Indefinite.
Function
Commission created by the General Assembly of 1931, consists
of 12 members, in addition to the Governor, who is chairman.
Charged with the responsibility of working out a scheme of unifi-
cation of the executive control in the University of North Carolina,
North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering, and
the North Carolina College for "Women, and to unify and coordinate
the general educational program of the University. Empowered
to employ experts in the several pertinent fields to study the cir-
cumstances and needs of higher education in North Carolina and
on the findings of these experts to make report to the Governor,
which report when adopted by the Trustees appointed by the 1931
General Assembly shall be and remain the rules and regulations
under which the consolidated University and its component parts
shall continue to function. Expenses of commission and employes
paid out of the contingency and emergency fund.
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CONSTITUTIONAL COMMISSION
Resolution 36, P. L. 1931
Charles B. Aycock. Secretary. Raleigh
Composition — Nine members.
Personnel — Chief Justice W. P. Stacy. Raleigh, Chairman; George
E. Butler, Clinton; J. 0. Carr, "Wilmington; Burton Craige,
Winston-Salem; A. J. Maxwell, Raleigh; Judge John J. Parker.
Charlotte; Clarence Poe, Raleigh; Judge Michael Schenck.
Hendersonville; Lindsay C. Warren. Washington.
Appointment — By the Governor.
Term — Two years.
Compensation — $10 per diem and expenses.
Function
Created by the General Assembly of 1931 to consider and study
the Constitution of the State and changes and amendments needed
to make the same serve the best interests of all the people and to
make a report of their conclusions to the General Assembly of 1933
with proposals for such amendments or for a redraft of the Con-
stitution. The Commission has power to appoint clerks and sten-
ographers and such assistants as may be necessary to properly
perform the duties imposed upon them. Expenses of the commis-
sion to be paid out of the contingency and emergency fund.
COMMISSION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF
THE LAWS
Composition — Fourteen members.
Personnel — Associate Justice Geo. W. Connor, Chairman, Raleigh;
Attorney General Dennis G. Brummitt, Raleigh; Judge W. A.
Devin, Oxford; J. C. Biggs, Raleigh; C. W. Tillett, Jr.. Char-
lotte; Prof. E. W. Timberlake, Wake Forest; Dean Justin Mil-
ler, Duke University; Prof. Albert Coates, Secretary, Chapel
Hill; Jas. G. Hanes, Winston-Salem; Dr. Thurman D. Kitchin.
Wake Forest; Senators, Hinsdale and Grady; Representatives.
Moss and Turner of Guilford.
Appointment — Five fixed by statute and nine appointed by the
Governor.
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Term— Those fixed by statute during their term of office; others
during the term of office of the Governor making the appoint-
ment.
Compensation — None.
Function
Created by the General Assembly of 1931. To meet at least twice
annually, oftener at call of chairman. To consider proposals for
the betterment of the law; to make such investigations as may
be necessary and recommend to the General Assembly changes in
the law which it deems expedient, accompanying the recommenda-
tions with drafts of proposed bills and the reason for same, sending
a copy to each member of the General Assembly.
STATE BOARD OF EXAMINERS OF PLUMBING AND
HEATING CONTRACTORS
Chapter 52, P. L., 1931
W. F. Morrison, Secretary, Raleigh
Composition — Five members.
Personnel— Dr. H. G. Baity, Chapel Hill; Luther P. Paschall, Dur-
ham; R. D. Beam, Raleigh; W. H. Sullivan, Greensboro; R. M.
Kermon, Wilmington.
Appointment — By the Governor.
Term — Five years overlapping.
Qualifications — One from the following: Engineering School Chapel
Hill, State Board of Health, Plumbing Inspector, Licensed
Master Plumber, Heating Contractor.
Compensation — $10 per diem and expenses.
Function
To meet at least twice a year in Raleigh, keep a record of its
proceedings, register all applicants for examination and submit to
the Governor a yearly report, copy of which must be filed with
the Secretary of State, together with statement of all receipts and
expenditures; to examine and license all persons, firms or cor-
porations, resident and non-resident, desiring to carry on a plumb
ing or heating business in this State. The Board has power to
revoke licenses and to hear and pass on charges of fraud in ob-
taining license, incompetency, etc. Act does not apply to towns
having a population of not more than 3,500.
PART III
PLATFORMS AND POLITICAL PARTIES 1932
1. Democratic National Platform.
2. Republican National Platform.
3. State Democratic Platform.
4. State Republican Platform.
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL PLATFORM
Adopted at Chicago, June 29, 1932
In this time of unprecedented and social distress, the Democratic
party declares its convictions that the chief causes of this condition
were the disastrous policies pursued by our government, since the
World War, of economic isolation; fostering the merger of com-
petitive businesses into monopolies; and encouraging the indefensi-
ble expansion and contraction of credit for private profit at the ex-
pense of the public.
Those who were responsible for these policies have abandoned
the ideals on which the war was won, and thrown away the fruits
of victory, thus rejecting the greatest opportunity in history to bring
peace, prosperity and happiness to our people and to the world.
They have ruined our foreign trade, destroyed the values of our
commodities and products, crippled our banking system, robbed
millions of our people of their life savings and thrown millions
more out of work, produced widespread poverty and brought the
government to a state of financial distress unprecedented in times
of peace.
The only hope for improving present conditions, restoring em-
ployment, affording permanent relief to the people, and bringing
the nation back to its former proud position of domestic happiness
and of financial, industrial, agricultural and commercial leadership
in the world, lies in a drastic change in economic and govern-
mental policies.
Believing that a party platform is a covenant with the people
to be faithfully kept by the party when entrusted with power, and
that the people are entitled to know in plain words the terms of
the contract to which they are asked to subscribe, we hereby
declare this to be the platform of the Democratic Party.
The Democratic Party solemnly promises by appropriate action
to put into effect the principles, policies and reforms herein advo-
cated, and to eradicate the policies, methods and practices herein
condemned:
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Steps Advocated
We advocate:
1. An immediate and drastic reduction of governmental expendi-
tures by abolishing useless commissions and offices, consolidating
departments and bureaus, and eliminating extravagance, to accom-
plish a saving of not less than 25 per cent in the cost of federal
government; and we call upon the Democratic Party in the states
to make a zealous effort to achieve a proportionate result.
2. Maintenance of the national credit by a federal budget an-
nually balanced on the basis of accurate estimates within revenues,
raised by a system of taxation levied on the principle of ability
to pay.
3. A sound currency to be preserved at all hazards; and an
international monetary conference called on the invitation of our
government to consider the rehabilitation of silver and related ques-
tions.
4. A competitive tariff for revenue, with a fact-finding tariff
commission free from executive interference; reciprocal tariff
agreements with other nations; and an international economic
conference designed to restore international trade and facilitate
exchange.
Credit to States
5. Extension of federal credit to the states to provide unemploy-
ment relief wherever the diminishing resources of the states make
it impossible for them to provide for the needy; expansion of the
federal program of necessary and useful construction affected with
a public interest; such as flood control and waterways, including
the St. Lawrence-Great Lakes deep waterways; the spread of em-
ployment by a substantial reduction in the hours of labor, the
encouragement of the shorter week by applying that principle in
government service; advance planning of public works.
6. Unemployment and old-age insurance, under state laws.
7. For the restoration of agriculture, the Nation's basic indus-
try; better financing of farm mortgages through re-organized farm
bank agencies at low rates of interest, on an amortization prSn.
giving preference to credits for the redemption of farms and homes
sold under foreclosure; extension and development of the farm
cooperative movement, and effective control of crop surpluses so
that our farmers may have the full benefit of the domestic market;
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enactment of every constitutional measure that will aid the farmers
to receive for basic farm commodities, prices in excess of cost.
8. A navy and an army adequate for national defense, based on
a survey of all facts affecting the existing establishments, that the
people in time of peace may not be burdened by an expenditure
fast approaching a billion dollars annually.
Anti-Trust Laws
9. Strict and impartial enforcement of the anti-trust laws to
prevent monopoly and unfair trade practices, and revision thereof
for the better protection of labor and the small producer and dis-
tributor; the removal of government from all fields of private en-
terprise, except where necessary to develop public works and
natural resources in the common interest; conservation develop-
ment and use of the Nation's water-power in the public interest.
10. We favor the repeal of the 18th Amendment.
To effect such repeal, we demand that the Congress immediately
propose a constitutional amendment to purely representative con-
ventions in the states called to act solely on that proposal.
We urge the enactment of such measures by the several states
as will actually promote temperance, effectively prevent the return
of the saloon and bring the liquor traffic into the open under com-
plete supervision and control by the states.
We demand that the federal government exercise its power to
enable the states to effectually protect themselves against importa-
tion of intoxicating liquors in violation of their laws.
Pending repeal, we favor immediate modification of the Vol-
stead Act to legalize the manufacture and sale of beer and other
beverages of such alcoholic content as is permissible under the
Constitution and to provide therefrom a proper and needed revenue.
Protect Investors
11. Protection of the investing public by requiring to be filed
with the government and carried in advertisements of all offerings
of foreign and domestic stocks and bonds true information as to
bonuses, commissions, principal invested and interests of sellers.
Regulation to the full extent of the federal power of
(A) Holding companies which sell securities in interstate com-
merce.
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(B) Rates of utility companies operating across state lines.
(C) Exchanges trading in securities and commodities.
12. Quicker methods of realizing on assets for the relief of
depositors of suspended banks and a more rigid supervision of
national banks for the protection of depositors and the prevention
of the use of their moneys in speculation to the detriment of local
credits.
The severance of affiliated securities companies and the divorce
of the investment banking from commercial banks; and further
restriction of federal reserve banks in permitting the use of federal
reserve facilities for speculative purposes.
13. The full measure of justice and generosity for all war veterans
who have suffered disability or disease caused by or resulting from
actual service in time of war, and for their dependents.
Foreign Policy
14. A firm foreign policy including: Peace with all the world
and the settlement of international disputes by arbitration; no
interference in the international affairs of other nations; the
sanctity of treaties, and maintenance of good faith and of good-
will in financial obligations; adherence to the World Court with
the pending reservations; the Pact of Paris abolishing war as an
instrument of national policy, to be made effective by provisions
for consultation and conference in case of threatened violation of
treaties; international agreement for reduction of armaments;
and co-operation with nations of the Western Hemisphere to main-
tain the spirit of the Monroe Doctrine.
We oppose cancellation of the debts owing to the United States
by foreign nations.
15. Independence for the Philippines; ultimate statehood for
Porto Rico; the employment of American citizens in the operation
of the Panama Canal.
16. Simplification of legal procedure and reorganization of the
judicial system to make the attainment of justice speedy, certain
and at less cost.
17. Continuous publicity of political contributions and expendi-
tures, strengthening of the corrupt practices act, and severe pen-
alties for misappropriation of campaign funds.
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Things Condemned
We condemn:
1. The improper and excessive use of money in political activ-
ities.
2. Paid lobbies of special interests to influence members of Con-
gress and other public servants by personal contact.
3. Action and utterances of high public officials designed to
influence stock exchange prices.
4. The open and covert resistance of administrative officials to
every effort made by Congressional committees to curtail the ex-
travagant expenditures of the government, and to revoke improvi-
dent subsidies granted to favored interests.
5. The extravagance of the Farm Board, its disastrous action
which made the government a speculator in farm products, and the
unsound policy of restricting agricultural production to the demands
of domestic markets.
6. The usurpation of power by the State Department in assum-
ing to pass upon foreign securities offered by international bankers,
as a result of which billions of dollars in questionable bonds have
been sold to the public upon the implied approval of the federal
government.
7. The Hawley-Smoot tariff law, the prohibitive rates of which
have resulted in retaliatory action by more than 40 countries,
created international economic hostilities, destroyed international
trade, driven our factories into foreign countries, robbed the
American farmer of his foreign markets and increased his cost of
production.
Conclusion :
To accomplish these purposes and to recover economic liberty,
we pledge the nominees of this convention and the best effort of a
great party whose founder announced the doctrine which guides
us now, in the hour of our country's need — "Equal rights to all.
special privileges to none."
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL PLATFORM (Condensed)
Adopted at Chicago, June 15, 1932
Introduction
We meet in a period of widespread distress and of an economic
depression that has swept the world. The emergency is second
only to that of a great war. The human suffering occasioned may
well exceed that of a period of actual conflict.
The supremely important problem that challenges our citizens
and government alike is to break the back of the depression, to
restore the economic life of the nation and to bring encourage-
ment and relief to the thousands of American families that are
sorely afflicted.
The people themselves, by their own courage, their own patient
and resolute effort in the readjustment of their own affairs, can
and will work out the cure. It is our task as a party, by leadership
and a wise determination of policy, to assist that recovery.
To that task, we pledge all that our party possesses in capacity,
leadership, resourcefulness and ability.
We have in the White House a leader — wise, courageous, patient,
understanding, resourceful, ever-present at his post of duty, tireless
in his efforts and unswervingly faithful to American principles
and ideals.
Throughout the depression unemployment has been limited by
the systematic use of part time employment as a substitute for the
general discharge of employes. Wage scales have not been reduced
except under compelling necessity. As a result there have been
fewer strikes and less social disturbance than during any similar
period of hard times.
Believe Distress
During the trying winters of 1930-31 and 1932 a nation-wide or-
ganization to relieve distress Avas brought into being under the
leadership of the President. By the spring of 1931 the possibility
of a business upturn in the United States was clearly discernible
when, suddenly, a train of events was set in motion in Central
Europe which moved forward with extraordinary rapidity and
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violence, threatening the credit structure of the world, and even-
tually dealing a serious hlow to this country.
The President foresaw the danger. He sought to avert it by
proposing a suspension of intergovernmental debt payments for one
year. But the credit machinery of the nations of Central Europe
could not withstand the strain, and the forces of disintegration
continued to gain momentum until in September Great Britain
was forced to depart from the gold standard. This momentous
event, followed by a tremendous raid on the dollar, resulted in a
series of bank suspensions in this country, and the hoarding of
currency on a large scale.
Again the President acted. Under his leadership, the National
Credit Association came into being. It mobilized banking resources,
saved scores of banks from failure, helped restore confidence, and
proved of inestimable value in strengthening the credit structure.
In his message to Congress, the President outlined a constructive
and definite program which in the main has been carried out; other
portions may yet be carried out.
The Railroad Credit Corporation was created. The capital of the
federal land banks was increased. The Reconstruction Finance
Corporation came into being, and brought protection to millions of
depositors, policy-holders and others.
Raids on Dollar
Legislation was enacted enlarging the discount facilities of the
Federal Reserve System, and without reducing the legal reserves
of the Federal Reserve banks, releasing a billion dollars of gold,
a formidable protection against raids on the dollar and a greatly
enlarged basis for an expansion of credit. An earlier distribution
to depositors in closed banks has been brought about through the
action of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Above all the
national credit has been placed in an impregnable position by pro-
vision for adequate revenue and a program of drastic curtailment
of expenditures. All of these measures were designed to lay a
foundation for the resumption of business and increased employ-
ment. But delay and the constant introduction and consideration
of new and unsound measures has kept the country in a state of
uncertainty and fear, and offset much of the good otherwise accom-
plished.
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The President has recently supplemented his original program.
To provide for distress, to stimulate the revival of business and em-
ployment, and to improve the agricultural situation, he recom-
mended extending the authority of the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation to enable it:
Hoover Program
(A) To make loans to political sub-divisions of public bodies or
private corporations for the purpose of starting construction of
income-producing or self-liquidating projects which will at once
increase employment;
(B) To make loans upon security of agricultural commodities so
as to insure the carrying of normal stocks of those commodities,
and thus stabilize their loan value and price levels;
(C) To make loans to the Federal Farm Board to enable exten-
sion of loans to farm cooperatives and loans for export of agri-
cultural commodities to quarters unable otherwise to purchase them;
(D) To loan up to $300,000,000 to such states as are unable to
meet the calls made on them by their citizens for distress relief.
The President's program contemplates an attack on a broad
front, with far-reaching objectives, but entailing no danger to the
budget. The Democratic program, on the other hand, contemplates
a heavy expenditure of public funds, a budget unbalanced on ;i
large scale, with a doubtful attainment of at best a strictly limited
objective.
We strongly endorse the President's program.
Unemployment and Relief
The relief problem is one of State and local responsibility. The
work of local agencies, public and private, have been coordinated
and enlarged on a nation-wide scale under the leadership of the
President. Sudden and unforeseen emergencies such as the drought
have been met by the Red Cross and the government.
The President has urged Congress to create an emergency relief
fund to be loaned temporarily to any State.
The Republican party endorses this record and policy and is op-
posed to the Federal government entering directly into the field of
private charity.
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Public Economy
Constructive plans for financial stabilization cannot be com-
pletely organized until our national, State and municipal govern-
ments not only balance their budgets, but curtail their current ex-
penses to a level which can be steadily and economically maintained
for some years to come.
We urge prompt and drastic reduction of public expenditure and
resistance to every appropriation not demonstrably necessary to the
performance of the essential functions of government.
The Dollar
The Republican party established and will continue to uphold
the gold standard and will oppose any measure which will under-
mine the government's credit or impair the integrity of our na-
tional currency. Relief by currency inflation is unsound in prin-
ciple and dishonest in results.
Banks and Banking System
There is need of revising the banking laws so as to place our
banking structure on a sounder basis. For the better protection
of the depositing public there should be more stringent supervision
and broader powers vested in the supervising authorities.
One of the serious problems affecting our banking system has
arisen from the practice of organizing separate corporations under
and controlled by the same interests as banks, but participating in
operations which the banks themselves are not permitted legally
to undertake. We favor requiring reports of and subjecting to
thorough and periodic examination all such affiliates until adequate
information has been acquired so the problem may definitely be
solved.
International Conference
We favor the participation by the United States in an interna-
tional conference to consider matters relating (o monetary ques-
tions, including the position of silver, exchange problems, and
commodity prices, and possible cooperative action concerning them.
Home Loan Discount Bank System for the Benefit of Home Owners
of the United States
The plank favors the creation of a system of federally-supervised
home loan discount banks, designed to serve the home owners of all
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parts of the country and to encourage home ownership hy making
possible long term credits for homes on more stable and more
favorable terms.
There has arisen in the last few years a disturbing trend away
from home ownership. We believe that everything possible should
be done by governmental agencies, national, state and local, to
reverse this tendency.
Agriculture
Farm distress blamed on expansion of agricultural production
during the war, deflation of 1919-20 and dislocation of markets
after the war.
Republican administrations have passed legislation promoting co-
operatives and farm credit. Party has redeemed pledges of 192S
for farm tariffs and creation of federal farm board.
The farm board has increased cooperative marketing and made
credit available. American farmer has received higher prices for
his products than the farmer of any competing nation.
Republican party also made possible loans to drought areas, pro-
vided employment by road building, developed inland water sys-
tem and recapitalized federal land banks.
The party pledges itself to revise tariffs to maintain parity of
protection to agriculture with other industry.
The time has come for reconsideration of tax systems, federal,
state, and local, relieving unjust burdens.
The fundamental problem of American agriculture is the control
of production to such volume as will balance supply with demand.
The Tariff
Because marny foreign countries have recently abandoned the gold
standard, lowering costs of many commodities in terms of American
currency, adequate tariff protection is today particularly essential.
The tariff commission should promptly investigate individual com-
modities so affected by currency depreciation, and report to the
President any increase in duties found necessary to equalize domestic
with foreign costs of production.
Policy of a flexible tariff, giving power to the President to modify
rates is supported.
We favor the extension of the general Republican principle of
tariff protection to natural resource industries, including products
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of farms, forests, mines and oil wells with compensatory duties on
the manufactured and refined products thereof.
Yeterans
Increased hospital facilities have been provided, payments in
compensation have more than doubled, and generous provisions made
in rehabilitations, pensions and insurance.
We believe that every veteran incapacitated in any degree by
reason of illness or injuries attributable to service in defense of
his country should be cared for and compensated, so far as com-
pensation is possible, and that the dependents of those who lost
their lives in war or whose death since the war in which service
was rendered is traceable to service causes, should be provided for
adequately.
A careful study should be made of existing veterans legislation
with a view to eliminating inequalities and injustices and effecting
all possible economies.
Our relations with foreign nations have been carried on by Presi-
dent Hoover with consistency and firmness but with mutual under-
standing and peace with all nations. The party will continue to
maintain its attitude of protecting our national interests and poli-
cies wherever threatened but at the same time promoting common
understanding of the varying needs and aspirations of other nations
and going forward in harmony with other peoples without alliances
or foreign partnerships. The facilitation of world intercourse, the
freeing of commerce from unnecessary impediments, the settlement
of international difficulties by conciliation and the methods of law,
and the elimination of war as a resort of national policy have been
and will be our party program.
Friendship and Commerce
We believe in and look forward to the steady enlargement of the
principles of equality of treatment between nations.
The American policy known as the "most favored nation prin-
ciple" has been our guiding program and we believe that policy to
be the only one consistent with a full development of international
trade.
Throughout the controversy in the Far East, the President and his
.secretary of state have maintained a just balance between Japan
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and China. Throughout the controversy our government has acted
in harmony with the governments represented in the League of Na-
tions, always making it clear that American policy would be de-
termined at home but always lending a hand in the common in-
terest of peace and order.
In the application of the Kellogg pact the American government
has taken the lead, following the principle that a breach of the pact
or a threat of infringement thereof was a matter of international
concern.
We favor enactment by Congress of a measure that will authorize
our government to call or participate in an international conference
in case of any threat of non-fulfillment of Article 2 of the treaty
of Paris (Kellogg-Briand) pact.
Latin America
The policy of the administration has proved to our neighbors of
Latin-America that we have no imperialistic ambitions but that we
wish only to promote the welfare and common interest of the in-
dependent nations in the western hemisphere.
World Court
We commend the World Court for the settlement of international
disputes by the rule of law. America should join its influence.
Reduction of Armament
In the Geneva disarmament conference America is an active par-
ticipant. This policy will be pursued.
Maintenance of our navy on the basis of parity with any nation
is a fundamental policy to which the Republican party is committed.
National Defense
We support the essential principles of the national defense act
as amended in 1920 and by the Air Corps act of 1926, and believe
that the army of the United States has through successive reduc-
tions, accomplished in the last 12 years, reached the irreducible
minimum consistent with the self-reliance, self-respect and security
of the country.
Wages and Work
For the principle of high wages, the shorter working week and
work day for government and private employment.
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For legislation designed to stimulate, encourage and assist in
home building.
Immigration
Restriction of immigration on basis of present laws.
Department of Labor
Commend the constructive work of the United States Department
of Labor.
Labor
Collective bargaining recognized and approved; also other laws to
aid and protect labor.
Employment
We commend the constructive work of the United States Em-
ployment Service.
Freedom of Speech
Freedom of speech, press and assemblage are fundamental prin-
ciples to be preserved and protected.
' Public Utilities
Supervision, regulation and control of interstate public utilities
in the interest of the public. We urge legislation to authorize the
Federal Power Commission to regulate the charge for electric cur-
rent when transmitted across state lines.
Transportation
Coordination of transportation by rail, highway, air and water,
subject to appropriate and constructive regulation, so that all com-
mon carriers shall operate under conditions of equality.
Restoration of railroad credit and the maintenance of their ability
to render adequate service. Further development of the merchant
marine under American registry and ownership.
St. Lawrence Seaway
Development of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence seaway.
Highways
Continuation of Federal cooperation with the States in the build
ing of roads in accordance with our needs and resources.
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Crime
Enactment of rigid penal laws that will aid the states in stamp-
ing out the activities of gangsters, racketeers and kidnappers.
Narcotics
Continuation of the present relentless warfare against the illicit
narcotic traffic and the spread of the curse of drug addiction.
Civil Service
Approval of civil service.
Conservation
The wise use of all natural resources freed from monopolistic
control; also the conservation of oil by coordination of effort
through the states, the producers and the Federal government.
Negro
Maintenance of equal opportunity and rights for Negro citizens.
Hawaii
Favors the existing status of self-government for the territory of
Hawaii and administration of its government by bona fide residents
of the territory. <
Porto Eico
Inclusion of the island in all legislative and administrative meas-
ures enacted or adopted by Congress or otherwise for the economic
benefit of citizens of the mainland; all island administrative officials
to be qualified by at least five years of bona fide residence.
Alaska
Widest possible territorial self government and the selection so
far as possible of bona fide residents for positions.
Welfare work and children:
Continuation of child welfare work in all its phases.
Indians
Fullest protection of property rights of and adequate educational
and health facilities.
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Reorganization of Government Bureaus
Reorganization of government bureaus through legislation which
will give the President the required authority.
Democratic Failure
The vagaries of the present Democratic House of Representatives
offer characteristic and appalling proof of the existing incapacity
of that party for leadership in a national crisis. Individualism run-
ning amuck has displaced party discipline and has trampled under-
foot party leadership. A bewildered electorate has viewed the
spectacle with profound dismay and deep misgivings.
Goaded to desperation by their confessed failure, the party leaders
have resorted to "pork barrel" legislation to obtain a unity of
action which could not otherwise be achieved.
Party Government
Only by united party action can consistent, well-planned and
wholesome legislative programs be enacted. Without it, election
under a party aegis becomes a false pretense. We earnestly re-
quest that Republicans throughout the Union demand that their
representatives in Congress pledge themselves to the end that the
insidious influence of party disintegration may not undermine the
very foundations of the republic.
The Eighteenth Amendment
The Republican party has always stood and stands today for
obedience to and enforcement of the law as the very foundation of
orderly government and civilization. There can be no national
security otherwise. The duty of the President of the United States
and of the officers of the law is clear. The law must be enforced
as they find it enacted by the people. To these courses of action
we pledge our nominees.
The Republican party is and always has been the party of the
Constitution. Nullification by non-observance by individuals or
State action threatens the stability of government.
While the constitution makers sought a high degree of perma-
nence, they foresaw the need of changes and provided for them.
Article V limits the proposals of amendments to two methods: (1)
two-thirds of both houses of Congress may propose amendments; or
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(2) on application of the Legislatures of two-thirds of the States a
national convention shall be called by Congress to propose amend-
ments. Thereafter ratification must be had in one of two ways:
(1) by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the several states or
(2) by conventions held in three-fourths of the several states. Con-
gress is given power to determine the mode of ratification.
Referendums without constitutional sanction cannot furnish a
decisive answer. Those who propose them innocently are deluded
by false hopes; those who propose them knowingly are deceiving
t lie people.
A nationwide controversy over the Eighteenth Amendment now
distracts attention from the constructive solution of many pressing
national problems. The principle of national prohibition as em-
bodied in the amendment was supported and opposed by members
of both great political parties. It was submitted to the states by
members of Congress of different political faiths and ratified by
state legislatures of different political majorities. It was not then
and is now not a partisan political question.
Members of the Republican party hold different opinions with
respect to it and no public official or member of the party should
be pledged or forced to choose between his party affiliations and
his honest convictions upon this question.
We do not favor a submission limited to the issue of retention or
repeal. For the American nation never in its history has gone
backward, and in this case the progress which has been thus far
made must be preserved, while the evils must be eliminated.
We, therefore, believe that the people should have an opportunity
to pass upon a proposed amendment the provisions of which, while
retaining in the Federal Government power to preserve the gains
already made in dealing with the evils inherent in the liquor traffic,
shall allow states to deal with the problem as their citizens may
determine, but subject always to the power of the Federal Govern-
ment to protect those states where prohibition may exist and safe-
guard our citizens everywhere from the return of the saloon and
attendant abuses.
Such an amendment should be promptly submitted to the states
by Congress, to be acted upon by state conventions called for that
sole purpose in accordance with the provisions of Article V of
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the Constitution, and adequately safeguarded so as to be truly
representative.
Conclusion
"The Republican party faces the future unafraid.
"With courage and confidence in ultimate success, we will strive
against the forces that strike at our social and economic ideals, our
political institutions."
DEMOCRATIC STATE PLATFORM
Adopted at Raleigh, June 16, 1932
The platform adopted by the Democratic State Convention fol-
lows in full:
The Democratic Party in North Carolina refers to its record of
one hundred years of fidelity to the principle that the government
is derived from the people and must ever be administered for their
welfare. It was the Democratic Party that first raised the standard
of manhood suffrage in this commonwealth; that when occasion
demanded, established the rule of white supremacy; that set up
the legalized primary and the Australian Secret Ballot system;
that gave to women the full right and power of the suffrage.
The Democracy of North Carolina faces the challenge of the
difficult present in prideful consciousness of its record of service
in the past. Suffering sorely, as the nation does under economic
afflictions largely contributed to by the mistakes and misguided
policies of a Republican national administration, the nation seeks
and cries aloud for a way out of its distress. In such circumstances
we point with pride to the hope which lies in the eternal principles
to which our party has dedicated its life and effort. For the people
remember the golden era of Democracy's last years of ascendancy
in the nation; the people remember the political false pretenses
put forward by the Republicans' high command in the years gone
by; the people remember the broken promises of relief to distressed
agriculture, harassed industry and jobless laborers in the nation.
and so remembering, the people will punish those who have misled
them in the past.
The record of service in North Carolina is the surest guarantee
of Democratic good faith and constructive leadership. The con-
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tribution which our party has made to the development of our so-
cial, economic and political welfare has been unparalleled. Througli
Democratic sponsorship and support has come practically every
advance which the last quarter of a century has witnessed — an
advance which has challenged the admiration of our sister states.
In the last four years, also, governmental agencies have been
maintained in efficiency and honesty; the cause of education and
health has been greatly promoted and conserved ; our highways
have been developed and maintained to the point of an unparal-
leled efficiency; the tax burden on property and people has been
greatly lightened and, with all, the total public debt, including the
accumulated current deficit, has been reduced by approximately
$12,000,000 in spite of the Republican panic which has been upon us.
The Democracy of the State in convention assembled endorses
the administration of Governor O. Max Gardner and points with
pride to the record of the party's achievement during the present
administration and endorses that record, legislative and executive,
as a fine, constructive and patriotic contribution to the welfare
and upbuilding of the commonwealth.
State Policies
The present State administration has met a most difficult situa-
tion with wisdom and resource worthy of the best traditions of the
Democratic Party.
Constructive Measures
We especially commend:
The taking over of the maintenance by the State of the public
schools for the constitutional term of six months, and the taking
over of all the public roads by the State Highway Commission.
These two constructive measures have resulted in the greatest tax
reduction to land and home owners ever accomplished at one time
in the history of North Carolina — amounting to an average annual
reduction in the property tax rate of 40c in the counties of the
State, and in the gross sum of approximately $12,000,000 per annum.
The centralizing of the purchasing department of the State, and
the economies produced in government by the Department of Per-
sonnel.
The consolidation and coordination of the State's higher insti-
tutions of learning resulting in greater efficiency and economy.
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The reorganization of the banking system of the State.
These and other major achievements mark the greatest advance
in the State's history in economy administration, and in reducing
the total volume of taxation. They also reflect the larger unity of
the commonwealth in constructive progress. They shine by con-
trast with the vacillating, inadequate and dismal course pursued
in the same period by the national Republican administration.
It is significant that these policies have drawn national attention
to North Carolina and many states are following her example.
The Party's Program
With an abiding faith in the courage of the people of our com-
monwealth, the Democratic Party pledges itself to a continuance
of a program of constructive and helpful service, and to this end
we pledge:
1. An immediate revaluation of property throughout the State
at its true value in money, to the end that inequality and injustice
may be avoided.
2. The removal of the 15 cent property tax now levied for the
support of the six-months public school term.
3. We recognize the prime importance of preserving the credit
of the State, and to that end the budget must be balanced.
4. The maintenance of the public school system and our higher
institutions of learning in a state of efficiency, thus guaranteeing
to every boy and girl in North Carolina the opportunity "to bur-
geon out all that there is within them."
5. The promotion of public health and welfare.
6. The care of the unfortunate and helpless in our humanitarian
institutions.
7. A program of strict economy in every department and agency
of the State government, including the discontinuance of any gov-
ernmental agency which is not rendering a necessary and indis-
pensable public service, or saving money for the taxpayers of
the State.
8. It has always been the policy of our party to levy no taxes
except for the necessary expenses of efficient government, and in
this time of universal distress, we pledge every reasonable effort
for the reduction of governmental expenses and the avoidance of
the additional taxes.
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ft. The Democratic Party always has been responsive to the will
of the people, and, in obedience thereto, has sponsored and enacted
all the prohibition laws of North Carolina. Recognizing, however,
the right of the people, in a legal way to amend the Constitution
of the United States at their pleasure, and to vote on all ques-
tions at issue, we declare our party stands firmly for the enforce-
ment of these laws and every provision of the Federal Constitu-
tion, so long as it remains the law of the land.
10. We pledge a continuance of our policy of frank recognition
of the rights of both capital and labor, and a broader distribution
of employment as a means to a satisfactory and sustaining progress
of industrial development, and a more wholesome industrial life in
this State. We endorse the legislation along this line enacted by
the last Legislature, and commend the Democratic leadership re-
sponsible for it. We pledge ourselves to the enforcement of these
and other laws.
11. We face, without dismay, the difficult task of maintaining
under existing circumstances, the high standard of the State's in-
stitutions. These institutions are the pride and hope of our people.
They are conducted by noble and patriotic men and women. If
for the present we appear to have arrested our progress, the
pause is not by way of abandoning our noble ideals, but of fortifying
ourselves with them.
The State's Representatives in Congress
We commend the record of our servants in the National Con-
gress. They have been faithful to their duties, true to their party,
and have proved themselves worthy representatives of Democracy.
Invitation
The hour calls for the return of the Democratic Party to power
throughout the republic. In the coming election the Republican
Party will be condemned at the polls by the victims of its false
pretense and its disastrous policies. It has forgotten the masses
of the people, and they will welcome the opportunity to repudiate it.
Every aspect of the present situation demands the appreciation of
Democratic principles, that is,
(a) Simplicity of government.
(b) Economical administration.
Republican State Platform 71
(c) Equal rights to all, and special privileges to none.
(d) Special regard for the welfare of the farmer and worker.
(e) The encouragement of commerce and industry, and the pres-
ervation of industry and initiative.
(f) Free foreign relations on a basis of mutual interest in the
commerce of the world.
(g) The restoration of the Democratic principles of Woodrow
Wilson in the management of the Federal Reserve Banking system,
and the prevention of the use of its great resources for the promo-
tion of stock gambling and wild speculation.
This government needs now a great Democrat to deliver it and
lead it, one cast in the mold of a Jackson or a Wilson. Our na-
tional convention will present such an one to the nation, and in
less than 12 months the Republican Party will be driven from the
power of Presidency and of the Congress, and Democracy will apply
her great principles to the deliverance and relief of the people.
To this end we invite all who would deliver our country from
the evil and destructive forces which have come upon it under
Republican rule to join us in the coming election.
STATE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM
Adopted at Charlotte, April 14, 1932
When a political party invites support from the people, that
party should in good conscience and by plain words make known
to the people the policies, principles and ideals for which it stands.
The people have the right to know in what manner and by what
means a. party proposes to carry on the public business, if placed in
power.
It has always been the policy of the Republican party to take a
definite stand upon public questions, and to state frankly its posi-
tion. We believe that it is evident to all thinking people that there
are now certain financial, political and economic problems facing
the people of North Carolina which must be solved quickly and
solved rightly, if the honor and integrity of our State is to be
preserved and the interests of our people protected.
72 Political Platforms
Therefore, the Republican party of North Carolina in convention
assembled, reposing its trust in the honor, intelligence and sense
of justice of the people of our State, publicly declares, by the fol-
lowing platform, the position of the party upon the questions of
vital import confronting the people of our State at this time.
We take this occasion to record our estimate and approval of the
administration of that wise leader and profound statesman, Presi-
dent Herbert Hoover. In the midst of a period of world-wide eco-
nomic depression, social disorder and political upheaval which has
witnessed national riots, violent revolutions and the fall of gov-
ernments in other parts of the world, President Hoover, in spite
of partisan and personal attacks more scandalous than any Presi-
dent has had to endure for more than half a century, by his su-
perior skill, courageous statesmanship and persevering devotion to
duty, has directed for our Republic a course of safety and security.
With a spirit of tolerance toward the little-minded partisans and
the vicious-minded mongers of manufactured scandal, barking and
snapping at his every effort, the President has succeeded in fighting
back from our shores the forces and conditions that have destroyed
governments abroad. It has been the spirit and genius of Herbert
Hoover, supported by the faith and confidence of patriotic, sane
thinking and sound-hearted Americans, that has saved our Re-
public in this world crisis. The good people of North Carolina
contributed in the gift of this great man to the nation. We take
pride in the record he has made and we pledge to him our con-
tinued confidence, cooperation and support.
We rededicate and reconsecrate ourselves to the principles of the
Republican party heretofore so often written into its platforms
and woven into the history of our country. The Republican party
is now and has always been the party of the people and has ever
striven to give to every man, regardless of his station in life, the
full protection of his rights as an American citizen.
Democratic Extrayagance and Misrule
We do not deem it necessary to record here our condemnation
of the many failures and false policies of the Democratic party
in the administration of the affairs of our State; nor do we feel
it necessary to state here our protests against the gross extrava-
Republican State Platfok.m 73
gance and waste of the people's money by the Democratic policies
and office-holders of our State.
The people know about these things. They have borne their ever
increasing burden of Democratic misrule until it has become in-
tolerable. The people have awakened to the sad and lamentable
fact that the Democratic party in this State can not be trusted to
give the people a conservative, just and safe administration of
their affairs.
The people know that the Democratic policies of preaching and
promising economy, and at the same time practicing the most
inexcusable extravagance, has brought the State of North Carolina
face to face with the prospect of financial disaster.
The people do not have to be told that the credit of the State
is destroyed and that its bonds are now selling at the disgraceful
figure of eighty-six (86) cents on the dollar.
The people know that in 1919 the Democratic administration
promised the people that its plans for revaluation of real property
would greatly reduce the tax rate and relieve the burden of high
taxes. The people have learned that this promise was false, and
they know now that their property — their farms and homes — are
valued for taxation at two or three times their real worth and
that the tax rate has been more than doubled instead of being
decreased, as promised.
The people know that under Democratic rule the State and local
debt amounts to more than five hundred million dollars, or a
total of one hundred and eighty-three dollars ($183.00) per capita
for every man, woman and child, white and colored in the State
of North Carolina, and that on a comparative basis of State wealth,
this debt exceeds many times the debt of any other State in the
Union.
The people know that the cost of government in North Caro-
lina has multiplied four times within the past ten years and that
this unheard of increase is due, in a large measure, to the unwise
policies and extravagance on the part of our public officials.
The people know that our Democratic state officials have for a
long time been borrowing money and paying as high as six per cent
therefor to pay the running expenses of the State, and the people
know that the present administration ceased borrowing money
and increasing the public debt only when it had so impaired the
74 Political Platforms
credit of the State that it could no longer borrow in the money
market.
The people know that the orgy of waste and reckless spending
of their money by the Democratic administration in North Caro-
lina has spread into practically every county, city and town in
the State, and that today many of these units are bankrupt and
are having to suffer the disgrace of defaulting on their debts.
The people know that innumerable offices have been created with
fat salaries to pay political debts to "worthy Democrats," and they
know that departments, bureaus, boards and commissions have
been increased and multiplied in number until it has become dif-
ficult for a citizen to know where and how or by whom, the busi-
ness of the State is being transacted; and they know that the ex-
penses of government have been increased beyond all reason while
the people themselves have been forced to toil and struggle under
an oppressive burden of taxation to pay the salaries of this great
army of office holders, whose principal official function is to raid
the State treasury with their pay checks.
The people do not have to be told that within the past three or
four years their homes, which represented their life savings, have
been sold from over their heads by the tens and hundreds of thou-
sand because they could not meet the excessive and burdensome
taxes exacted from them to supply the means of Democratic ex-
travagance and mismanagement.
The people know that land values in North Carolina have been
destroyed; that industry has been retarded; and property owners
discouraged, by the mounting expense of government, and alarm-
ing increase from year to year in the taxes they have to pay.
The people know that the burden of taxation has become for
them a yoke of economic slavery under which they must toil and
suffer as long as the Democratic party rules in this State.
The people know that what North Carolina needs at this time
more than anything else is not new sources of taxation, so much
as it is new ideas of economy, and a new brand of conscience in Its
political leaders, its Governors, office holders and law makers.
The people do not have to be told that they have lost millions
upon millions of dollars, the savings of their toil and sacrifice
through the failure of banks from one end of the State to the other,
and that a great majority of these failures was the direct result
Republican State Platfohm 75
of the gross incompetence, criminal negligence, and loose methods
of supervision by the state banking authorities. The people know
that as recently as two years ago the Platform of the Republican
party in this State protested against these methods and warned
the State authorities, as well as the people, of what would neces-
sarily happen unless these shameful conditions were remedied.
This warning was not heeded, and today we witness the melan-
choly result which has brought financial collapse and indescribable
agony and distress to practically every community in our Com-
monwealth.
The people know that our public school system of North Caro-
lina and the State highway organization have been shamefully con-
verted into partisan, political machines, notwithstanding the fact
that it has been repeatedly promised that they should always be
kept non-partisan; and the people know that this misuse and
abuse of these organizations has seriously affected their efficiency.
The people know that there has been no serious effort at law en-
forcement in this State under the present administration; that
crimes in high places have been kept concealed and have otherwise
gone unpunished, and that political considerations have become a
significant factor in dealing with state and legislative problems
of vital interest and deep concern to the people of our state.
The people know that the Democratic politicians and office holders
are now and have been for some months engaged in carrying on.
through newspapers and public speakers, a persistent campaign of
propaganda in an effort to make the people think measures of
economy have been adopted. The people know that this propa-
ganda is false and that it is nothing more than campaign thunder
for the approaching election.
The people know that the Democratic party in North Caro-
lina keeps itself in power only by means of unfair, partisan and
unjust election laws and the oppressive use of the election ma-
chinery and corrupt practices under cover of the absentee voters
law.
The people know that they must have relief from these intoler
able conditions, and they know that no relief is to be had until
the Democratic group of office holders, whos.e long reign of extrav-
agance, tyranny and oppression is responsible for the miserable con-
76 Political Platforms
dition which exists throughout our State, is repudiated at tlip
polls and swept from power.
Remedies Proposed
We solemnly promise the people of North Carolina that, if put
into power, the Republican party will in good faith carry out the
following proposals which we believe will, in a large measure,
repair the wrecked financial structures of our State, save it from
financial ruin, and inspire our people with new faith in our State
government and new hope for the future.
We promise immediate and drastic reduction in the number of
office holders not only the State but in the several counties.
We promise immediate and drastic reduction in the salaries and
fees of all office holders, State and county.
We promise immediate elimination of all waste and extrava-
gance in the operation of our State institutions and prison farms.
We promise immediate reduction in the number of departments,
bureaus, boards and commissions, by eliminations and consoli-
dations.
We promise elimination of extravagance and waste in highway
and road maintenance.
We promise to reduce to reasonable requirements the large army
of election officials, clerks and poll holders, whose compensation
costs the taxpayers a vast amount of money every two years for
primaries and elections.
We promise measures for strict economy in every branch of
State and county government, and for the highest degree of ef-
ficiency in public officials.
We promise to enact laws that will give back to the people the
right to decide by their vote when and for what purposes new
bonded indebtedness shall be created by the State, counties and
municipalities.
We promise to enact laws providing for strict budgetary control
of State expenditures under a system that will keep the State
budget always in balance by proper adjustment of State expenses
to State revenues and incomes.
We promise to repea^ the Act of the Legislature of 1923 which
relieved stock in foreign corporations from taxation. This Act
has worked a discrimination against the domestic corporations
Republican State Platfokm 77
and caused many of them to surrender their state charters and to
become foreign corporations, to the detriment of our State and
great loss to our State treasury.
We believe that if the tax reforms and policies of economy pro-
posed in this platform are made effective, a sales tax in any form
will be rendered unnecessary.
We favor a constitutional amendment to authorize increase in
the rate of taxation of individual and corporate incomes in the higher
brackets.
We believe there is too much wealth exempted from taxation
by law in North Carolina, and that if this wealth, with the vast
amount of other valuable property that has been kept concealed, is
made to bear a just proportion of the tax burden, our tax and rev-
enue problem will be in a large measure solved. We favor laws
that will place all wealth, tangible as well as intangible, upon the
tax books, to the end that the property of the rich shall be taxed
alike with the property of the less favored.
We believe that the present tax value of land, farms and homes,
constitutes a rank injustice and positive fraud upon land owners of
the State. We believe that tax books should be made to speak the
truth with respect to every item placed upon them, and we promise
the immediate enactment of laws that will reduce land values and
that will fix the values of all classes of property for taxation pur-
poses at not more than their actual market value.
We favor reform in the present system of taxation so that land
shall bear only its just proportion of the tax burden, and we de-
mand that land shall be relieved of all taxes necessary for the
maintenance and operation of our public schools for the six months
term provided by the Constitution of our State, and we promise
to enact the necessary laws to bring about this relief.
We condemn as grossly unjust the present law providing for tax
foreclosures by actions in court which entail enormous fees and ex-
penses to be charged against the property. This law legalizes un-
conscionable graft; is a disgrace to the State and a cruel burden
upon distressed tax payers. We promise immediate repeal of this
law.
78 Political Platforms
Banks
We promise to enact laws that will renew the confidence of our
people in the banks of our State and that will prevent wholesale
failures of banks, such as has been witnessed in this State within
the past two years. Banks should be confined strictly to banking
operations. We promise a system of State supervision of banks
that will be intelligent, thorough, painstaking and positive. Bank-
ing institutions obtain their franchises and charters to do business
from the people, through proper public officials, and should always
be subject to whatever reasonable regulations are made for the
protection of the people. The time to close a bank is the moment
it becomes insolvent, and no consideration whatsoever, political
or otherwise, can justify public officials in permitting insolvent
banks to remain open until all of the assets and deposits therein
have been dissipated and wasted. We promise legislation that will
eliminate politics from the regulation and supervision of banks
and financial institutions in this State. We believe that loss of
faith in banks and the unnecessary loss of millions of the people's
money thereby have done more to demoralize economic conditions
and to prolong the period of depression in this State than any other
one thing, and if placed in power, we promise the people that the
banking laws of this State shall be strengthened to the extent
necessary to insure stability and honesty in the banking business,
and to guarantee the greatest degree of security and safety to the
people.
Public Schools and Education
We promise that our public schools shall be taken out of politics
and that they shall be operated under a uniform system throughout
the State.
We further promise that our public schools which are near and
dear to the hearts of the people shall be properly supported and
their efficiency increased. We believe that a great saving can be
effected in the operation and maintenance of our public schools
and other State educational institutions by the elimination of non-
essentials and unnecessary waste, and by enforcing a policy of
strict economy.
We believe that all text books used in the public schools of our
State should be standardized and made uniform, and that they
Republican State Platform 79
should be furnished and where practicable, printed by the State, and
that the expenses of unnecessary changes in text books and the
burdens upon the people incident to these changes should be elimi-
nated. Books for use in our public schools should be furnished by
the State, either free of charge absolutely, or by loan and return,
with charge only for depreciation at the end of the school year,
with option to purchase at actual cost.
We demand that the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary
of State, Treasurer, Auditor, Superintendent of Public Instruction
and the Attorney General, who are Constitutional officers, selected
for other duties, should not be ex-officio members of and constitute
the State Board of Education, but to the contrary, this Board
should be non-partisan and composed of experienced business men
and educators, whose official duties should be to manage, direct
and control the public school system of the State, and further em-
powered and directed to equalize and apportion the funds pro-
vided by law for school support and maintenance.
That the State Superintendent of Public Instruction should not
be an elective Constitutional officer, but to the contrary, he should
be appointed by the State Board of Education, and thereby remove
this position from partisan politics.
We demand that all of our State educational institutions shall
be amply provided for and supported by the State, and that our pub-
lic school teachers who have rendered heroic service to the State
shall be paid salaries commensurate with the grade and character
of work they are required to perform, without any discrimination
as to time between the payment of their salaries and the salaries
of other public officials and employees of the State.
Chain Stores
We favor laws that will restrict, by constitutional taxation, the
menace of chain stores, and give back to the merchants and business
men of our State the opportunity to do business and earn a
living free from the crushing competition of alien non-taxpayers.
We believe that if this condition is not soon remedied, our local
independent merchants will be driven out of business and that
our people will be helplessly and hopelessly in the hands of a
foreign monopoly.
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Prohibition
We hope for a capable, courageous, sober and virile nation, and
therefore pledge ourselves to the retention and strict enforcement
of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United
States and all laws enacted for its enforcement; and we pledge
ourselves to the impeachment and discharge of every public official
and peace officer who becomes drunk in public, or while in the
discharge of any of his official duties and his prompt prosecution
in the criminal courts.
Election Laws
The most sacred possession of a citizen in a free government
is the right to cast a free and untrammeled ballot and to have
that ballot honestly counted. This right is seriously abridged in
North Carolina by the partisan election laws on our statute books,
and by the corruption and fraudulent practices which these laws
make possible. These laws and the abuses practiced under them
are violations of every principle of free government, and we shall
never cease to protest against them as un-American and unpatriotic.
We advocate, and if placed in power will enact, fair and impar-
tial election laws that will restore to the people of this State the
right to a free vote and voice in their government, and that will
guarantee to every citizen all the sacred rights and privileges of
citizenship.
We favor the immediate repeal of the absentee voters law, and
we favor a system of registration under the supervision of two
registrars, who shall be of different political parties, and one elec-
tion judge.
Highway Transportation
We demand that all automotive transportation companies, cor-
porations and individuals, using the highways of our State for
transportation for hire shall pay a tax commensurate with the bene-
fit derived from such use, and that will eliminate the present
system of unjust discrimination against railroads and other trans-
portation companies.
Labor
The Republican party has always undertaken to protect the
laboring man and will continue to do so and to advocate always
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for him just returns for his labor, wholesome conditions under which
to work, and fair compensation for all injuries sustained in the
course of his employment.
Agriculture
We recognize as a well established fact that the welfare of all
of our people rests in its finality on the uninterrupted prosperity
of our farmers, and we therefore pledge our party to exert every
reasonable effort to improve the general condition of the agricultural
interests of our State.
PART IV
ELECTION RETURNS
1. Popular and Electoral Vote for President by States. 1932.
2. Popular Vote for President by States, 1916-1928.
3. Vote for President by Counties, 1920-1932.
4. Vote by Counties for Governor in Democratic Primaries.
1924 and 1932.
5. Vote for State Officers in Democratic Primary, 1932.
6. Vote for State Officers in Democratic Primaries, 1928, 1930,
and 1932.
7. Democratic Primary Vote, June 7, 1930 for United States
Senator.
8. Democratic Primary Vote, June 4, and July 2, 1932, for
United States Senator.
9. Republican Primary Vote, June 4, 1932, for United States
Senator.
10. Vote for Governor by Counties. 1920-1932.
11. Vote for United States Senator, 1924-1932.
12. Vote for Members of Congress, 1924-1932.
13. Vote for Constitutional Amendments by Counties, 1932.
Vote for President
POPULAR AND ELECTORAL VOTE FOR PRESIDENT
BY STATES 1932
State
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts..
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire.
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina..
North Dakota...
Ohio....
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina. .
South Dakota...
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Totals.
Popular Vote
so
207,910
79,264
189,602
,324,157
250,877
281,632
54,319
206,307
234,118
109,479
,882,304
862,054
598,019
424,204
580,574
249,418
128,907
314,314
800,148
871,700
600,806
140,168
,025,406
127,286
359,082
28,756
100,608
806,630
95,089
,534,959
497,566
178,350
,301,695
516,468
213,871
,295,948
145,853
102,347
183,515
259,963
760,348
116,750
56,266
203,980
353,250
405,124
707,410
54,370
22,821,252
KM
34,675
36,104
28,467
847,904
189,617
287,720
57,073
69,170
19,863
71,312
1,432,756
677,184
414,433
349,498
394,716
18,853
166,631
184,184
736,959
739,894
363,959
5,180
564,713
78,078
201,177
12,674
103,629
775,686
54,217
1,937,963
208,344
71,772
1,227,679
188,165
136,019
1,453,540
114,320
1,978
99,212
126,806
97,959
84,775
78,984
89,637
208,645
330,731
347,741
39,583
15,760,195
H>
245,034
118,242
220,562
2,266,839
457,696
593,507
112,901
276,252
255,590
186,520
3,407,926
1,576,927
1,036,683
791,978
975,290
268,804
298,444
511,054
1,580,114
1,664,682
1,002,843
146,013
1,611,343
215,030
570,135
41,430
205,520
1,630,063
151,606
4,753,698
711,501
256,290
2.610,088
704,633
368,751
2,859,021
263,411
104,411
288,438
390,784
863,426
206,559
136,978
297,943
614,804
743,774
1,114,815
96,962
39,805,455
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3
9
22
6
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12
4
29
14
11
9
11
10
17
19
11
9
15
4
7
3
16
3
47
13
4
26
II
5
4
8
4
II
23
4
12
3
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36
59
Roosevelt's plurality, 7,054,520.
Total Vote of Minor Parties
Thomas, Socialist 880,096
Foster, Communist 102,785
Upshaw, Prohibitionist 77,528
Harvey, Liberty 53,446
Reynolds , Social-Labor. 34,034
Coxey, Farmer-Labor 7,431
Zahnd, National...
Cox, Jobless
James Ford
"Jacksonian Party"
"Populist Tick"...
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740
994
1H4
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667
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VOTE BY COUNTIES FOR GOVERNOR IN
DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY, 1924 AND 1932
Counties
Alamance
Alexander
Alleghany
Anson
Ashe
Avery
Beaufort
Bertie
Bladen
Brunswick...
Buncombe...
Burke
Cabarrus
Caldwell
Camden
Carteret
Caswell
Catawba
Chatham
Cherokee
Chowan
Clay
Cleveland
Columbus
Craven
Cumberland.
Currituck
Dare
Davidson
Davie
Duplin
Durham
Edgecombe..
Forsyth
Franklin
Gaston
Gates.
Graham
Granville...
Greene
Guilford
Halifax
Harnett
Haywood...
Henderson..
Hertford
Hoke.
Hyde
Iredell
Jackson
Johnston
1924
349
375
002
883
153
216
153
059
623
295
297
492
172
663
334
987
505
980
400
298
590
100
341
961
738
908
863
501
831
402
036
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802
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448
353
,314
348
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,222
869
512
745
421
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,725
as
491
81
162
1,516
202
193
1,167
1,131
901
116
2,007
194
123
464
615
337
637
418
1,375
78
593
42
1,204
1,117
1,728
1,128
416
188
538
145
817
924
1,402
5(14
1,860
369
314
77
1,303
1,266
1,616
1,840
1,834
1,321
474
926
448
812
930
350
1,927
1932
First Primary
2,017
378
129
2,041
1,443
83
1,933
696
1,214
902
5,796
1,923
2,609
836
1,163
1,328
974
1,684
1,279
621
1,664
507
3,940
2,400
1,752
1,975
1,788
1,002
2,911
600
842
3,780
412
5,132
1,036
3,430
1,084
280
1,405
573
4,877
1,967
1,171
3,550
1,658
836
474
619
3,686
1,705
2,776
1,504
397
197
688
425
94
206
362
1,005
192
3,341
751
2,267
361
101
360
367
614
557
665
40
94
2,870
1,323
843
2,441
139
9
1,360
216
1,430
3,824
337
4,306
835
4,(192
90
282
1,258
105
4,751
867
1,309
1,150
479
109
327
172
1,954
315
847
1,275
92
439
1,794
907
99
2,784
1,586
1,206
308
4,396
583
154
137
79
693
167
234
1,212
393
39
43
667
1,405
2,109
1,010
100
14
252
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869
3,919
1,292
2,461
955
62
10
1,129
1,833
1,960
3,953
1,797
1,189
377
1,295
719
787
621
201
2,025
1932
Second Primary
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730
453
2,155
2,035
152
1,482
618
1,268
726
7,417
2,438
2,976
1,316
765
1,083
1,101
2,610
1,279
1,097
1,362
779
5,373
2,258
1,755
2,405
1,665
900
3,948
824
836
4,241
612
5,052
1,113
5,018
1,226
387
1,699
475
5,394
1,731
1 ,069
4,127
2,013
593
534
740
3,876
1,878
1,869
3
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1,648
495
764
2,614
633
111
2,940
1,570
2,250
271
5,551
757
1,175
387
24
712
380
982
2,233
465
49
22
2,318
2,428
1,861
2,242
151
14
865
214
2,057
3,603
4,422
2,754
3,239
2,758
137
147
1,558
1 , 259
3,813
3,984
2,426
1,502
717
987
1,094
1,054
2,159
287
3.668
92
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1924-1932— Continued
Counties
Jones.
Lee
Lenoir
Lincoln...
Macon
Madison
Martin
McDowell
Mecklenburg...
Mitchell
Montgomery...
Moore
Nash
New Hanover..
Northampton. .
Onslow
Orange
Pamlico
Pasquotank
Pender
Perquimans
Person
Pitt
Polk
Randolph
Richmond
Robeson
Rockingham
Rowan
Rutherford
Sampson
Scotland
Stanly
Stokes
Surry..
Swain
Transylvania...
Tyrrell...
Union
Vance
Wake
Warren
Washington
Watauga
Wayne
Wilkes
Wilson
Yadkin
Yancey
1924
Totals.
455
1,113
2,049
1,429
678
496
1,598
1,149
5,958
202
881
1,431
1,593
2,393
1,523
835
701
615
1,261
874
554
556
2,795
1,024
1,408
2,731
5,536
1,212
2,984
2,699
634
71
651
318
1,512
527
284
182
2,838
939
4,596
857
534
711
2,109
1,772
1,962
339
856
151,197
1,87
304
532
1,480
430
382
186
783
653
2,449
189
136
622
1,712
1,463
1,455
402
770
171
736
686
320
954
2,492
125
594
660
1,314
1,055
1,218
1,682
722
633
231
156
576
23
633
340
1,559
1,418
4,854
875
275
83
1,551
822
1,575
153
515
83,573
1932
First Primary
—
535
1,241
1,626
1,476
267
868
634
2,734
5,164
101
1,011
1,220
569
2,635
1,457
712
1,321
358
3,659
649
1,616
1,088
1,504
1,505
1,211
1,201
4,193
2,034
3,462
3,981
1,248
1,125
1,106
972
2,349
304
1,019
433
2,495
1,393
4,280
790
854
567
1,029
1,985
976
537
303
162,498
69
522
890
926
468
223
365
597
4,800
176
764
1,152
379
2,167
410
498
591
118
133
302
48
419
649
210
1,350
2,378
2,705
1,795
3,824
1,383
631
1,097
1,036
277
912
319
380
47
2,136
819
3,093
689
197
174
5,211
669
950
312
144
102,032
a
a
o
804
1,234
2,693
453
666
611
1,727
135
5,388
148
607
1,200
4,964
2,216
1,553
1,178
376
821
57
1,071
27
236
5,249
85
188
1,305
3,069
218
930
1,017
775
591
245
341
107
362
377
42
1,225
1,664
8,946
1,391
423
300
976
296
3,097
113
798
115,127
1932
Second Primary
473
719
1,647
1,840
1,090
723
719
2,133
7,215
240
910
1,163
910
3,335
1,349
850
1,360
366
3,640
710
1,753
1,361
1,369
1,529
2,319
1,780
3,753
2,123
3,930
3,911
1,152
1,247
1,315
748
3,285
520
1,334
290
2,514
1,482
4,062
753
802
1,079
2,290
2,062
1,040
625
818
182,055
682
1,934
3,494
922
609
643
1,829
510
7,624
206
1,334
1,673
5,814
,409
1,752
1,475
574
932
122
906
47
664
5,381
236
1,042
2,696
3,760
809
2,119
1,144
1,860
1,173
487
367
539
764
556
56
4,114
2,258
10,256
1
666
569
614
733
679
175
222
786
168,971
Primary Vote for State Officers
93
VOTE FOR STATE OFFICERS IN DEMOCRATIC PRI-
MARIES, JUNE 4, 1932
Counties
Alamance..
Alexander..
Alleghany..
Anson
Ashe
Avery
Beaufort...
Bertie
Bladen
Brunswick..
Buncombe..
Burke
Cabarrus...
Caldwell...
Camden
Carteret
Caswell
Catawba...
Chatham...
Cherokee...
Chowan
Clay..
Cleveland..
Columbus..
Craven
Cumberland
Currituck. .
Dare
Davidson..
Davie
Duplin
Durham
Edgecombe.
Forsyth
Franklin...
Gaston
Gates
Graham
Granville. ..
Greene
Guilford
Halifax
Harnett
Haywood...
Henderson..
Hertford
Hoke
Hyde
Iredell
Jackson
Johnston
Jones
Lieut
enant-Go\
•ernor
Secretary of State
Auditor
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3,389
377
508
1,755
2,419
2,295
1,307
579
432
164
125
666
112
6Q2
69
53
461
47
60
429
171
458
79
28
2,329
475
919
1,665
1,987
1,652
1,251
691
1,695
230
303
1,009
1,233
1,162
946
154
73
72
92
155
70
147
34
38
2,764
703
343
1,121
2,798
1,702
1,549
402
849
196
742
770
1,049
1,154
394
139
1,532
443
635
752
1,826
1,206
723
414
649
230
178
305
830
719
180
185
6,349
3,592
2,296
5,142
6,962
5,461
2,240
4,420
890
1,923
308
2,128
890
1,049
1,867
127
2,275
523
1,067
2,107
2,304
2,084
1,473
796
471
388
228
552
545
512
254
314
510
189
209
314
406
509
154
107
804
436
737
197
2,002
1,669
157
168
1,046
107
122
8Q0
455
669
412
161
1,048
393
777
1,364
829
765
970
436
2,265
375
248
1,445
1,290
1,251
1,341
183
882
337
247
995
630
799
309
405
1,009
112
66
388
802
417
680
102
395
124
103
493
120
112
440
78
2,090
1,803
2,588
3,180
2,934
2,805
2,146
1,175
2,934
513
762
1,930
323
1,749
1,703
846
2,607
339
637
1,058
2,670
2,115
639
741
3,323
449
933
1,526
3,175
1,083
3,370
490
1,017
100
233
556
815
973
212
153
546
87
57
448
268
492
151
56
2,789
705
641
1,910
2,230
2,227
1,339
551
446
203
134
2«0
508
339
371
68
1,970
340
574
1,377
1,561
1,601
719
529
5,909
752
520
2,286
4,857
4,975
856
1,087
2,915
322
495
1,457
2,250
1,838
1,652
276
7,322
1,141
1,303
5,312
4,524
5,554
2,540
1,675
2,161
787
594
1,501
2,145
1,572
1,641
514
3,077
831
3,676
3,705
3,427
3,772
1,718
1,539
446
114
50
271
299
382
78
89
144
297
76
400
120
340
157
29
2,620
334
320
889
2,411
2,152
638
399
521
1,360
106
616
1,233
1,120
374
297
7,086
1,315
1,432
3,971
6,288
5,376
2,049
2,996
4,317
764
719
2,057
3,766
3,049
2,056
746
2,886
492
616
1,815
2,314
1,832
1,813
391
2,644
1,404
1,074
2,094
2,968
1,889
1,834
1,279
1,295
401
413
1,047
1,030
1,389
398
316
1,120
233
158
739
819
988
248
243
1,053
180
193
675
755
733
456
206
503
260
109
184
855
458
366
124
3,344
1,290
769
4,105
1,963
2,684
1,522
1,173
804
777
431
1,072
911
972
676
349
3,249
803
926
1,712
3,338
1,810
3,021
350
446
314
164 1
425
418
546
137
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04
Election Returns
Vote for State Officers in Democratic Primaries, June 4,
1932 — Continued
Counties
Lieutenant-Governor
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Secretary of State
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Auditor
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OJTJ
Lee
Lenoir
Lincoln
Macon
Madison
Martin
McDowell
Mecklenburg.
Mitchell
Montgomery.
Moore
Nash
New Hanover
Northampton.
Onslow
Orange
Pamlico
Pasquotank..
Pender
Perquimans..
Person
Pitt
Polk
Randolph
Richmond
Robeson
Rockingham..
Rowan
Rutherford...
Sampson
Scotland
Stanly
Stokes
Surry.
Swain
Transylvania.
Tyrrell
Union
Vance
Wake
Warren
Washington..
Watauga
Wayne
Wilkes
Wilson
Yadkin
Yancey
Total..
1.774
2,372
1,236
834
638
1,457
893
7,345
91
1,185
2,090
3,258
3,373
1,493
1,069
2,164
696
1,957
1,390
835
1,050
3,350
903
1,790
2,627
6,268
2,390
5,363
3,505
1,497
1,351
1,015
918
2,505
402
768
204
2,510
2,499
9,867
1,471
873
475
3,876
1,774
1,983
657
361
357
1,097
280
125
263
210
2,226
2,112
109
235
532
878
821
900
245
68
71
276
117
94
396
1,543
562
263
437
839
297
617
1,012
378
260
295
113
285
363
454
44
605
338
2,871
733
95
131
856
538
764
51
541
358
527
1,098
133
352
294
252
3,576
140
627
573
449
1,106
307
245
53
134
258
176
85
105
1,425
195
339
848
1,423
510
1,227
1,469
406
589
564
308
347
143
296
98
1,092
366
1,674
208
236
344
873
370
713
148
211
1,417
1,369
968
690
611
893
1,127
5,835
223
917
1,389
1,552
1,656
1,372
492
730
308
702
647
341
' 434
2,405
988
1,383
1,560
3,956
1,876
3,402
2,550
859
961
1,121
708
2,289
600
795
116
1,722
1,327
670
1,004
524
593
1,818
1,911
1,290
612
474
1,130
2,779
1,402
407
495
1,246
1,940
8,335
116
1,153
1,879
3,023
3,949
1,307
1,210
1,186
641
1,807
1,062
696
1,054
3,832
613
1,018
2,603
4,378
1,448
3,907
3,342
1,230
1,190
868
538
833
324
724
233
2,601
1,920
8,227
1,412
686
306
3,922
778
2,339
261
576
1,069
2,379
1,422
682
231
1,310
1,445
3,442
189
1,220
834
3,082
2,621
1,681
780
1,285
675
1,351
1,109
648
1,153
3,172
1,254
1,491
1,976
3,818
3,376
3,277
3,300
958
652
950
591
1,745
667
784
185
1,257
1,800
9,944
1,620
906
635
3,267
1,825
1,800
473
489
1,022
1,013
368
168
231
368
1,068
3,153
58
546
2,186
1,018
1,417
607
363
466
129
834
363
167
124
1,874
141
683
890
2,787
399
4,717
1,559
920
1,070
441
526
1,070
108
284
1,632
643
4,500
502
237
360
1,370
634
1,097
320
421
372
651
554
226
360
359
564
6,716
75
289
381
479
1,278
259
358
239
130
284
234
168
189
1,085
169
265
1,149
1,471
505
1,289
1,033
335
481
467
150
265
126
721
60
1,424
778
806
363
118
69
1,000
244
633
58
218
202,592
66,887
58,155
140,358
178,971
162,918
94,801
58,226
Primary Vote for State Officeks
95
Vote for State Officers in Democratic Primaries, June 4,
1932 — Continued
Counties
Attorney General
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— x
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Commissioner
to
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Insurance
Commissioner
9 a
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QP5
£1
Alamance __
Alexander..
Alleghany..
Anson
Ashe
Avery
Beaufort
Bertie
Bladen
Brunswick..
Buncombe..
Burke
Cabarrus...
Caldwell...
Camden
Carteret
Caswell
Catawba
Chatham
Cherokee. _ .
Chowan
Clay
Cleveland..
Columbus..
Craven
Cumberland
Currituck..
Dare
Davidson...
Davie
Duplin
Durham
Edgecombe.
Forsyth
Franklin
Gaston
Gates.
Graham
Granville...
Greene
Guilford....
Halifax
Harnett
Haywood...
Henderson..
Hertford
Hoke
Hyde
Iredell
Jackson
Johnston
Jones
,370
556
550
,430
,841
188
130
,577
,626
834
,843
,494
,104
747
677
,822
480
,654
,306
,066
,000
380
,417
,078
645
,433
,148
594
,292
413
,237
,391
,113
,233
,919
,244
514
114
,397
,422
,391
,520
,252
,940
,485
,260
,007
635
,864
,497
,113
615
733
187
46
1,087
392
33
628
167
760
187
4,106
390
1,278
314
108
133
808
473
367
364
158
239
5,375
1,039
767
1,200
183
101
806
461
523
1,466
565
3,350
693
2,559
73
423
173
324
1,759
1,221
730
1,962
546
252
357
229
1,273
498
828
166
2,308
423
374
2,243
1,053
132
2,701
1,840
1,196
512
5,867
2,651
2,699
579
569
1,616
672
1,355
1,603
747
1,076
286
2,731
2,311
1,946
2,274
1,088
501
2,617
439
1,730
3,327
2,905
5,939
1,884
3,679
556
295
1,930
1,059
5,986
4,728
2,730
2,883
1,349
1,738
863
366
3,156
1,326
3,347
504
1,499
222
130
1,183
858
87
760
131
1,071
435
6,710
333
1,400
408
177
218
445
679
994
634
108
347
2,725
1,571
1,181
1,950
258
147
1,371
190
309
2,738
595
3,205
1,569
2,760
64
197
1,018
556
3,363
1,041
1,081
2,044
696
173
422
414
1,559
618
1,503
195
2,685
527
399
2,485
1,272
81
2,891
1,323
1,466
652
6,085
2,490
2,876
705
443
268
620
1,367
1,985
582
838
218
3,919
2,603
2,048
3,450
853
361
3,225
519
2,425
4,424
3,214
6,504
2,203
4,522
290
122
2,537
1,292
6,888
4,496
2,048
2,485
1,061
1,122
1,048
567
3,186
1,136
4,134
632
1,292
128
148
988
802
116
797
316
912
345
5,627
396
1,317
384
277
1,947
497
706
689
795
273
412
1,925
1,397
1,968
1,137
422
187
848
212
466
2,182
438
3,014
1,256
2,145
163
357
686
378
2,972
1,251
862
2,367
914
364
303
245
1,611
795
818
185
06
Election Returns
Vote for State Officers in Democratic Primaries. June 4,
1932 — Continued
Lee
Lenoir
Lincoln
Macon
Madison
Martin ._
McDowell
Mecklenburg,.
Mitchell
Montgomery..
Moore
Nash
New Hanover.
Northampton.
Onslow
Orange
Pamlico
Pasquotank...
Pender
Perquimans...
Person
Pitt
Polk
Randolph
Richmond
Robeson
Rockingham..
Rowan
Rutherford
.iampson
Scotland
Stanly
Stokes
Surry
Swain
Transylvania..
Tyrrell
Union
Vance..
Wake
Warren
Washington
Watauga.
Wayne
Wilkes
Wilson
Yadkin
Yancey
Counties
Attorney General
O.ts
i s
1 E
2a
Total.
1,772
3,154
1,293
755
767
1,409
1,939
7,147
226
1,312
2,244
3,380
4,037
2,170
1,214
1,377
687
2,101
1,320
832
1,209
4,128
725
1,871
2,455
5,687
2,626
4,812
2,886
1,538
1,359
956
798
2,763
693
093
253
2,273
2,949
12,185
2,153
918
758
3,679
1,860
2,610
742
860
224,723
1,
c 8
o e
<2S
603
791
1,019
279
363
634
1,079
5,483
87
692
1,051
1,056
1,374
411
319
327
196
357
391
172
223
1,719
878
500
1,396
2,319
562
2,279
2,964
514
660
978
241
262
154
392
84
1,757
396
2,466
382
285
158
1,885
789
913
100
193
84,881
Corporation
Commissioner
Insurance
Commissioner
n
1,291
2,384
1,116
473
524
1,404
2,634
6,176
185
1,018
1,773
3,185
2,539
3,136
745
1,143
433
1,849
914
748
842
3,846
1,092
1,322
2,509
4,260
1,923
4,207
3,098
1,302
1,087
839
678
2,457
688
794
169
1,708
2,172
10,380
1,979
947
626
3,348
1,600
2,140
519
802
189,702
972
1,228
1,018
528
496
496
369
5,508
111
906
1,202
973
2,096
153
594
631
334
472
640
228
445
1,804
484
895
1,864
3,237
950
2,378
2,501
693
784
784
462
500
290
640
133
1,920
899
3,300
480
223
231
1,806
882
735
272
229
102,718
2!
1,590
4,221
1,191
453
504
1,379
2,112
7,068
136
1,212
2,299
3,489
3,754
1,838
961
1,269
543
1,532
1,239
622
951
4,545
755
1,508
2,858
5,327
2,216
4,380
3,211
1,312
1,137
902
749
2,625
513
779
178
2,012
2,029
11,392
1,632
917
628
4,768
1,860
2,508
480
541
206,878
Est
. O
780
404
917
534
495
610
863
5,266
155
704
895
895
1,530
648
595
505
318
794
398
363
386
1,571
838
742
1,075
2,508
842
2,605
2,420
518
832
891
429
445
362
666
135
1,866
1,083
3,061
625
259
260
1,068
714
906
330
470
96,200
Primary Vote for State Officers
97
Vote for State Officers in Democratic Primaries, June 1.
1932 — Continued
Counties
Alamance
Alexander...
Alleghany...
Anson
Ashe
Avery.
Beaufort
Bertie
Bladen
Brunswick..
Buncombe. .
Burke
Cabarrus
Caldwell. ...
Camden
Carteret
Caswell
Catawba
Chatham
Cherokee
Chowan
Clay
Cleveland
Columbus
Craven
Cumberland.
Currituck...
Dare
Davidson
Davie
Duplin
Durham
Edgecombe..
Forsyth
Franklin
Gaston
Gates
Graham
Granville
Greene
Guilford
Halifax
Harnett
Haywood
Henderson..
Hertford
Hoke
Hyde
Iredell
Jackson
Johnston
Jones
Commissioner of Labor
w
oS
,056
367
210
806
57
45
,456
490
543
352
,975
280
850
119
255
250
611
530
712
225
123
66
,005
978
S28
,726
448
95
381
91
616
,424
809
833
,379
,708
227
17
616
765
,884
,739
,596
441
212
326
430
210
971
36
,660 ,
206'
First Primary
995
539
89
29
257
37
1 ,580
379
2,305
80
47
30
1,571
156
557
81
674
328
410
106
1,061
2,903
1,114
946
1,735
286
314
343
152
102
1,402
105
178
148
258
276
921
322
147
869
715
74
20
489
774
1,547
523
899
758
424
753
402
298
145
73
44
2,367
188
19
18
805
179
1,377
643
745
136
1,127
345
775
329
1,722
734
87
46
26
460
1.392
247
205
149
2,368
1,035
1,820
611
1,022
246
621
3,334
447
1,028
398
228
451
86
323
84
1,315
347
23
2,204
686
611
417
66
aa
777
90
65
360
97
43
301
157
254
84
1,185
143
346
87
102
80
85
161
149
181
55
12
806
665
286
455
139
89
407
620
465
543
317
659
401
874
32
23
306
234
1,090
356
473
638
173
115
81
157
480
421
340
48
520
48
28
286
27
40
186
285
363
134
3,408
182
983
172
114
61
106
902
216
87
162
1
425
328
794
916
128
318
599
363
2,112
739
6,744
264
1,357
83
3
231
218
3,165
468
252
297
170
224
212
31
1,601
25
958
47
"E-e
03c/3
174
20
9
228
12
18
197
83
256
33
624
353
147
72
41
57
59
95
366
36
28
36
381
646
483
321
165
14
341
11
292
627
808
187
338
400
27
14
326
145
417
656
321
182
89
69
87
38
320
15
733
51
Second Primary
W
MS
1,246
299
324
1,522
47
110
1,269
542
1,034
222
6,309
796
1,212
280
200
614
610
1,429
807
291
132
117
1,681
1,573
1,433
1,405
913
371
582
349
659
2,860
1,586
2,202
1,590
2,623
307
105
793
740
3,035
1,676
1,542
1 ,536
675
376
579
442
1,687
139
2,218
115
►J .3
1,957
751
711
2,394
2,608
121
2,289
1,083
1,920
622
5,498
2,243
2,578
1,189
355
1,022
590
1,610
2,306
1,167
977
664
5,044
2,486
1,616
2,836
419
288
4,066
577
1,828
3,585
2,520
4,978
2,120
4,036
317
421
2,214
699
5,004
3,370
1,713
3,252
1,695
835
892
703
3,528
1,973
2,423
834
98
Election Returns
Vote for State Officers in Democratic Primaries, June 4,
1932 — Continued
C
ommissioner of Labor
First Primary
Second Primary
Counties
Qj —
S"oS
6s
O
= >
a a
aa
c
x2
u
52
In
O
Lee
943
1,308
354
98
336
642
596
1,807
117
585
1,263
1,357
1,486
835
305
530
276
710
427
149
231
1,478
145
775
771
1,660
728
1,098
715
718
617
320
138
133
13
562
38
1,095
1,630
7,549
900
348
44
1,644
125
950
131
114
445
850
519
57
65
310
1,165
1,605
108
404
732
1,269
921
664
246
517
197
717
183
340
747
2,239
152
695
950
2,143
1,028
931
1,767
534
609
287
606
1,630
30
97
64
609
531
4,372
565
422
232
1,127
1,565
606
126
59
301
340
338
736
981
160
520
1,405
156
248
286
475
820
250
476
144
208
176
282
92
122
422
693
187
294
658
253
402
1,227
200
211
165
92
139
870
1 , 138
58
498
185
538
228
137
154
675
391
242
58
265
279
472
486
129
214
256
331
1,583
30
349
357
374
555
151
205
122
89
248
309
131
102
484
155
246
446
731
437
939
1,165
257
146
356
233
106
50
150
65
882
414
320
248
106
167
763
275
368
366
140
249
651
407
37
143
365
228
5,904
5
202
339
526
1,208
261
95
526
89
360
262
270
96
719
57
331
1,394
1,844
358
3,526
603
194
378
322
171
715
17
97
43
442
298
1,258
229
52
301
766
288
734
96
438
152
221
118
15
78
200
200
546
13
224
185
274
274
144
91
73
32
114
94
30
87
717
413
134
190
1,163
288
391
365
132
112
376
30
451
7
71
35
549
108
952
109
73
16
477
43
332
76
57
1,153
1,807
8,347
271
568
750
721
6,123
129
971
1,376
1,990
2,488
1,006
570
569
451
978
694
278
331
2,086
635
1,286
1,881
2,304
641
2,459
1,557
1,097
757
432
153
689
588
642
89
2,313
2,032
7,052
1,019
424
259
2,479
270
1,483
262
732
1,023
Lenoir
2,210
Lincoln
1,536
Macon
1,139
Madison
320
Martin
1,241
McDowell
1,624
Mecklenburg
6,246
Mitchell
223
Montgomery
Moore
906
1,253
Nash
2,954
New Hanover
2,884
Northampton
1,239
Onslow
906
Orange
1,080
Pamlico
507
Pasquotank
1,582
Pender
576
Perquimans
724
Person
1,396
Pitt
3,857
Polk
889
Randolph
1,558
Richmond
2,141
Robeson
4,182
Rockingham..
1,822
Rowan
2,971
Rutherford
3,030
Sampson
Scotland
1,276
1,269
Stanly
1,128
Stokes
789
Surrv
2,861
Swain
658
Transylvania
1,087
Tyrrell
132
Union
2,634
Vance
1,342
Wake
6,143
Warren
1,017
Washington
Watauga
642
1,282
Wayne
2,321
Wilkes
2,361
Wilson
2,481
Yadkin
506
Yancey
638
Total
224,723
84,881
74,820
76,216
44,349
32,915
114,971
183,513
Primary Vote for State Officers 99
VOTE FOR STATE OFFICERS IN DEMOCRATIC
PRIMARIES, 1928, 1930, and 1932
1928
FOR LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR—
R. T. Fountain 84,477
John D. Langston 68,480
W. H. S. Burgwyn 62,866
FOR COMMISSIONER OF LABOR AND PRINTING —
Frank D. Grist 115,442
M. L. Shipman 66,391
Oscar J. Peterson 28,207
1930
FOR CORPORATION COMMISSIONER —
George P. Pell 167,083
James H. Hoi.lowat 86,227
1932
FOR GOVERNOR—
J. C. B. Ehrinuhaus 162,498
Allen J. Maxwell 102,032
Richard T. Fountain 115,127
FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR —
A. H. Graham 202,592
Denison F. Giles 66,887
David P. Dellinger 58,155
FOR SECRETARY OF STATE—
Stacey W. Wade 178,971
James A. Hartness 140,358
FOR STATE AUDITOR —
Baxter Durham 162,918
Chester O. Bell 94,801
George Adams 58,226
FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL —
Dennis G. Brummitt 224,723
Peyton McSwain 84,881
FOR COMMISSIONER OF LABOR —
A. L. Fletcher 76,216
Clarence Mitchell 74,820
John D. Norton 44,349
R. R. Lawrence 60,433
W. Henry Davis 32,915
B. F. Smith 22,180
FOR CORPORATION COMMISSIONER-
STANLEY Winborne 189,702
E. C. Macon 102,718
FOR INSURANCE COMMISSIONER —
Dan C. Boney 206,878
D. W. Morton 96,200
SECOND PRIMARY
FOR GOVERNOR—
J. C. B. Ehringhaus 182,055
Richard T. Fountain 168,971
FOR COMMISSIONER OF LABOR—
A. L. Fletcher 183,. r >l.'!
Clarence E. Mitchell 114,971
100
Election Returns
DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY VOTE, JUNE 7, 1930, FOR
UNITED STATES SENATOR
Counties
Alamance. .
Alexander. .
Alleghany. .
Anson
Ashe
Avery
Beaufort
Bertie
Bladen
Brunswick .
Buncombe.
Burke
Cabarrus. . .
Caldwell...
Camden
Carteret
Caswell
Catawba
Chatham..
Cherokee...
Chowan
Clay
Cleveland..
Columbus. _
Craven
Cumberland
Currituck...
Dare
Davidson...
Davie
Duplin
Durham
Edgecombe.
Forsyth
Franklin
Gaston
Gates
Graham
Granville
Greene
Guilford....
Halifax
Harnett
Haywood
Henderson..
Hertford... .
Hoke
Hyde
Iredell
Jackson
Johnston
1,262
184
2S4
1.432
366
103
1,346
1,059
1,193
529
5,892
599
527
507
397
832
919
918
527
169
474
41
1,667
1.917
3,279
1,916
357
124
771
410
1,428
3,230
1,533
5,289
1,239
3,324
390
69
1,074
1 , 183
3.5S0
1,308
1,139
1,446
475
912
445
639
3,113
254
932
X
2,637
657
1.115
2.407
2.087
154
2,395
1.669
1,311
68S
10.062
1,934
1,636
1.030
728
1.750
779
3.665
1,839
1.156
1,061
539
4,105
2,338
1,514
2,154
1,168
571
3,732
713
1,688
4,381
2,466
4,511
2,332
4,199
587
661
2,654
1,283
6,610
3,111
2,594
3,697
1,848
866
952
536
2,573
2,244
2,376
K
Counties
32
6
62
29
2
2
18
3
26
24
249
6
6
4
2
16
15
26
10
o
9
3
59
107
19
31
19
8
4
23
71
7
50
32
72
15
7
30
19
38
21
16
35
17
10
10
16
33
11
11
Jones
Lee..
Lenoir
Lincoln
Macon
Madison
Martin
McDowell
Mecklenburg- .
Mitchell
Montgomery. .
Moore
Nash
New Hanover.
Northampton.
Onslow
Orange
Pamlico
Pasquotank...
Pender
Perquimans...
Person
Pitt.
Polk..
Randolph
Richmond
Robeson
Rockingham..
Rowan
Rutherford...
Sampson
Scotland
Stanly
Stokes
Surry
Swain
Transylvania..
Tyrrell
Cnion
Vance
Wake.
Warren
Washington
Watauga
Wayne
Wilkes
Wilson
Yadkin
Yancey
Totals.
2
979
,096
,295
747
316
252
697
553
,989
146
652
877
,726
,696
,175
,339
656
476
835
785
473
816
,333
374
648
,378
,934
,908
,070
,736
718
,186
581
496
,057
123
251
82
,374
,752
,225
,028
431
26S
,644
463
,583
517
136
129,875
OS
257
1,057
1,600
2,038
1,653
1,110
2,213
1,680
5,158
585
1,166
1,538
2,730
1,769
1,238
752
1,626
773
2,094
784
782
1,443
3,864
1,212
2,25S
2,235
2,808
2,350
3,623
3,327
1,323
1,685
968
939
2,397
1,332
1,523
293
3,381
1,863
7,572
1,666
587
697
2,799
1,623
2,517
551
1,000
200,242
Primary Vote for Senatob
10!
DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY VOTE, JUNE 4, AND JULY 2,
1932, FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR— SHORT TERM*
Counties
Alamance..
Alexander..
Alleghany..
Anson
5 sr S'Ashe
Avery
Beaufort
Bertie
Bladen
Brunswick.,
y Buncombe..
Burke
.Cabarrus
Caldwell...
Camden
Carteret
Caswell
Catawba
Chatham
Cherokee
Chowan
Clay
Cleveland..
Columbus..
Craven
Cumberland
Currituck...
Dare
Davidson...
Davie
Duplin
Durham
Edgecombe-
Forsyth
Franklin
Gaston
Gates
Graham
Granville...
Greene
Guilford
Halifax
Harnett
Haywood...
Henderson..
Hertford
Hoke
Hyde
Iredell
Jackson
Johnston . . .
Jones
o
m
376
283
707
880
,841
112
290
373
668
27
508
40
356
60
33
73
124
202
955
232
53
82
388
833
284
335
113
63
318
192
452
443
199
,566
445
254
111
86
177
469
744
612
522
399
56
402
147
287
,022
180
491
204
O
373
25
18
215
32
12
1,022
201
270
94
487
61
191
767
292
91
126
217
156
194
17
79
462
521
700
377
98
21
150
41
312
206
141
1,437
683
1,398
63
26
342
349
706
243
216
137
47
93
88
396
312
196
294
412
'rimary
a
-3
CQ
o
a
o
&
s
&
2,727
1,174
243
260
63
53
1,333
2,063
93
34
109
39
1,590
1,920
639
1,135
772
1,253
782
336
2,829
9,915
2,335
717
2,240
2,071
307
237
304
441
1,468
611
710
774
1,345
759
1,442
401
593
576
300
1,186
282
196
3,556
2,976
1,340
2,335
922
2,630
1,387
3,313
777
792
619
185
2,009
1,996
485
156
1,346
1,262
3,075
4,568
1,065
3,062
4,425
3,207
1,098
1,867
4,369
2,231
320
322
329
119
1,560
1,511
310
1,164
4,623
5,366
1,482
4,322
1,917
1,537
2,476
2,984
1,006
1,475
778
653
330
945
240
342
2,782
2,116
594
1,309
2,974
1,799
228
386
Second Primary
1,611
489
707
1,508
426
104
1,435
764
1,077
427
2,364
1,457
1,618
366
489
1,030
512
1,103
1,539
327
291
333
2,594
1,228
686
1,111
709
601
1,710
558
835
701
157
193
2,
1,
3,
1,153
3,038
477
183
1,570
411
2,867
1,285
1,620
1,802
732
723
541
513
2,185
472
2.301
231
2,026
7 in
533
3,169
2,349
16>>
2,811
1,413
2,334
582
10,795
1,745
2,559
1,339
223
747
971
2,645
1,859
1,243
991
471
5,287
3,498
2,934
3,571
975
285
3,223
503
2,055
5,024
3,739
4,658
3,107
4,828
538
362
1,646
1,263
6,339
4,243
1,826
106
2,103
730
1 , 103
928
3,801
1,720
3,140
852
102
Election Returns
Democratic Primary Vote, June 4 and July 2, 1932, for
United States Senator — Short Term — Continued
First Primary
Second Primary
Counties
V
o
n
o
a
a
*c
o
'JO
-o
"o
c
>>
K
c
o
GO
"C
I.
o
c
03
Lee
545
845
268
208
142
145
453
30.6
192
233
345
496
192
283
704
89
298
105
130
117
162
1,171
94
670
UJ3
545
379
477
196
268
263
192
319
360
121
147
81
608
416
1,370
302
196
105
608
607
625
309
49
153
996
88
70
33
234
291
789
4
190
183
600
495
312
144
162
99
80
151
49
155
441
38
132
314
1,760
428
518
780
123
157
110
245
317
27
18
35
382
249
1,770
253
437
49
394
635
363
133
18
1,497
897
1,766
457
420
713
1,760
8,213
92
945
791
1,320
2,157
1,973
477
1,053
311
1,516
924
602
720
2,182
974
1,193
2,489
4,104
1,651
3,567
3,793
1,032
965
1,385
639
2,458
248
400
115
2,468
903
4,906
756
310
630
2,703
959
1,466
358
803
642
2,519
705
56S
809
1,566
1,000
6,237
121
913
1,931
3,087
3,970
655
755
889
488
1,373
747
502
637
3,435
696
645
1,965
3,523
1,439
3,556
1,630
1,216
1,401
667
314
189
435
1,236
207
2,424
2,140
7,752
1,338
491
270
3,021
579
2,066
169
351
906
1,381
1,342
539
268
712
896
6,800
98
675
823
1,602
1,620
1,974
547
769
519
1,339
731
644
919
1,791
687
1,574
2,084
2,921
904
1,940
2,179
998
952
759
361
2,895
97
307
104
2,309
1,122
4,617
785
329
963
2,383
1,170
1,180
418
582
1 644
Lenoir
3 765
Lincoln
1,635
Macon..
1 251
Madison
1 021
Martin .
1,792
McDowell
1 819
•/Mecklenburg
8,330
Mitchell..
362
Montgomery
1,550
Moore
Nash
1,984
4,560
North Hanover
5,135
Northampton
1,003
Onslow
1,599
Orange
1,160
Pamlico
740
Pasquotank
1,966
Pender
847
Perquimans
733
Person
1,186
Pitt
4,838
Polk _
1,105
Randolph
1,719
Richmond
2,387
Robeson
4,605
Rockingham...
Rowan
1,974
4,148
Rutherford
2,941
Sampson
2,062
Scotland
1,532
Stanly
1,067
Stokes
734
Surry
924
Swain
1,240
Transylvania
1,686
Tyrrell
211
Union
4,524
Vance .
2,577
/ Wake
9,271
Warren
1,531
Washington.
941
Watauga
767
Wayne
3,544
Wilkes
1,594
Wilson
3,911
Yadkin
443
Yancey
1,115
Total
37,748
31,010
143,179
156,548
120,428
227,864
* Arthur Simmons received 4,341 votes for long term but did not file for short term.
Primary Vote for Senator
Id:;
REPUBLICAN PRIMARY VOTE JUNE 4, 1932, FOR
UNITED STATES SENATOR
Counties
Jake F.
Newell
George W.
DePriest
Counties
**" —
42
V t
eft-
CO
150
66
62
108
255
1,640
47
12
57
54
1,716
366
202
123
2
528
2
203
178
986
3
171
200
34
39
39
4
9
763
1,138
68
67
16
248
26
327
5
102
15
14
353
34
140
243
332
10
11
10
304
114
76
4
2
2
2
12
341
15
1
14
3
233
9
2
8
Jones
7
45
27
281
152
2,150
17
97
251
2,371
219
200
46
42
27
17
61
14
17
8
15
43
35
97
587
41
79
166
590
622
1,763
20
246
305
164
122
291
9
80
21
116
10
14
176
48
4,843
87
1,461
134
2
Lee .
Lenoir
:t
Lincoln
5
Ashe
Macon
18
Madison
573
Martin
Bertie .
McDowell
Bladen
Mecklenburg
6
Brunswick
Mitchell
352
Buncombe
Montgomery ..
3
Burke
Moore
17
Cabarrus.
Nash
I
Caldwell .
New Hanover
10
Camden- _.
Northampton .
2
65
1
6
2
518
2
Onslow
1
Caswell
Orange
2
Catawba
Pamlico
1
( 'herokee .
Pender
2
Chowan
Perquimans
2
Clay. .
Person .
3
Cleveland
28
2
14
2
7
56
226
4
2
2
22
1
12
Pitt
4
Columbus
Polk..
7
Craven
Randolph
3
C umberland
Richmond
2
Currituck
Robeson
4
l>are .
Rockingham
9
37
Davie
Rutherford
20
Duplin
Sampson
291
Durham
Scotland
1
Edgecombe .
Stanly
3
Forsyth .
Stokes. .
201
Franklin ...
Surry
33
Gaston
Swain.. .
Gates.
Transylvania.
6
Graham.
10
3
1
28
1
4
10
17
Tyrrell..
3
Granville .
Union
3
Vance
Wake
23
Halifax
Warren
1
Washington
1
Haywood
Watauga
7
Wayne
23
Hertford
WiLes
891
Hoke
1
2
19
14
8
Wilson
22
Hyde.
Yadkin
Yancey
Totals
313
Iredell..
7
Johnston .
29.906
4,668
104
Election Returns
VOTE FOR GOVERNOR BY COUNTIES, 1920-1932
Counties
Alamance
Alexander
Alleghany
Anson
Ashe
Avery
Beaufort
Bertie
Bladen
Brunswick
Buncombe
Burke
Cabarrus
Caldwell
Camden
Carteret
Caswell
Catawba
Chatham
Cherokee
Chowan
Clay
Cleveland
Columbus
Craven
Cumberland. _
Currituck
Dare
Davidson
Davie...
Duplin
Durham
Edgecombe...
Forsyth
Franklin
Gaston
Gates
Graham
Granville
Greene
Guilford
Halifax
Harnett
Haywood
Henderson
Hertford
Hoke
Hyde
Iredell
Jackson
Johnston
Jones
192(1
L -
5,274
2,000
1,417
3,340
3,628
403
3,559
1,886
1,991
1,311
10,412
3,314
4,394
2,953
565
2,094
1,250
5,424
3,219
1,762
1,129
763
5,116
3,313
3,464
3,316
974
846
4,907
1,634
3,432
4,706
3,395
8,250
2,786
7,220
812
655
2,662
1,664
9,594
3,540
3,902
4,227
2,525
1,165
1,266
1,170
6,351
2,398
6,076
999
►=«
4,624
2,643
1 , 187
422
3,800
2,497
2,212
147
1,010
1,381
8,005
3,566
5,226
3,222
116
2 292
"'496
5,912
2,895
2,474
162
913
2,978
1,655
604
1,849
69
624
5,844
2,583
2,704
3,494
1924
6,759
552
5,749
294
916
793
427
7,788
416
3,318
2,962
3,604
210
156
475
4,194
2,354
5,336
328
4,934
2,292
1,648
2,391
4,350
460
3,081
1,836
1,691
1,123
10,826
4,089
4,539
3,374
396
2,313
1,074
5,831
3,271
1,767
733
1,004
3,789
2,855
3,081
3,304
639
823
6,558
1,807
2,981
5,233
2,437
7,875
1,987
6,694
664
871
2,218
1,132
9,236
3,329
3,336
4,569
3,066
986
1,160
657
6,505
3,170
4,727
711
TO
B
1928
3,168
2,429
1,242
209
3,891
2,151
1,283
85
600
1,247
6,011
3,227
3,604
2,466
161
1,832
443
6,028
2,752
2,317
80
1,124
1,796
1,428
221
1,093
82
638
6,202
2,680
1,502
2,752
92
5,256
270
3,467
95
906
433
151
6,453
185
2,824
2,375
3,406
108
112
352
3,608
2,779
4,842
150
a
-a
h
C3
s a
oa
5,600
2,430
1,048
3,263
4,097
481
4,062
2,186
2,185
1,214
15,393
3,847
5,991
3,004
696
2,712
1,257
5,759
3,352
2,149
1,084
961
6,453
3,661
3,744
4,312
1,288
977
7,223
1,553
3,361
6,671
4,662
11,176
3,118
8,640
755
1,058
3,241
1,332
13,523
5,379
4,219
4,837
3,881
1,288
1,321
722
6,539
3,356
5,931
824
1932
3 I
as 3
rig,
• a
6,160
2,250
1,214
508
3,994
3,094
2,122
138
1,433
1,452
14,493
4,503
5,948
3,678
118
2,726
451
,053
081
058
112
012
678
2,865
976
2,531
68
717
8,290
2,784
2,550
5,964
469
9,893
415
8,698
266
1,192
568
329
13,456
371
4,416
4,019
4,571
122
204
406
5,751
3,382
7,246
301
J3
8,001
2,941
1,935
4,250
4,708
1,033
5,420
3,141
2,590
2,187
18,910
5,898
8,497
5,505
940
3,456
1,828
8,391
4,177
3,336
1,656
1,331
8,143
5,167
4,446
5,091
1,774
1,327
9,333
2,418
4,512
8,075
5,884
14.557
4,240
12,927
1,214
1,349
3,806
2,477
18,550
6,464
6,292
6,936
5,374
1,855
1,775
995
8.3S7
4,379
9,460
1,416
O 3
ta 5.
{JOS
5.078
2,047
812
209
3,946
2,650
895
45
889
1,870
8,281
4,981
3,572
3,785
51
1,782
184
5,879
2,849
3,184
36
1,284
1,831
733
328
871
27
478
6,432
2,663
1,199
2,384
207
5,688
216
5,223
60
1,224
211
89
10,729
222
2,756
2,986
4,290
81
63
132
3,786
2,878
4,062
119
Vote for Governor
105
Vote for Governor by
Counties, 1920-1932 — Continued
1920
1924
1928
1932
Counties
a
o
X
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£
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OPS
2,319
2,882
3,326
2,101
1,330
2,577
2,821
11,221
736
2,305
2,708
4,072
4,342
2,329
1,578
2,081
1,291
1,816
1,611
1,057
1,629
4,156
1,387
5,066
3,219
6,185
4,469
6,427
5,092
2,428
1,671
3,901
2,001
3,569
1,418
1,549
717
4,025
2,459
8,145
1,891
1,115
1,753
4,847
2,884
3,530
1,355
2,306
1,155
1,024
3,127
2,037
3,609
496
2,563
3,360
2,235
2,309
2,242
1,518
472
126
822
1,786
1,011
417
672
480
1,582
834
1,349
6,243
1,131
2,111
3,592
4,853
4,002
5,333
296
4,273
2,899
5,173
2,252
1,659
535
1,499
804
3,349
244
971
2,600
2,776
6,453
1,296
3,295
2,574
1,862
2,294
2,948
2,651
1,430
2,012
3,084
8,978
747
2,510
2,872
3,253
5,295
1,705
1,163
2,015
909
1,020
1,219
557
1,603
3,362
1,659
5,395
2,719
4,778
4,481
5,335
5,170
2,089
1,511
3,968
2,298
4,504
1,795
1,842
493
2,782
2,271
9,300
1,827
846
2,405
3,801
3,563
2,659
1,389
2,649
677
395
2,679
2,218
3,110
193
2,557
2,128
1,604
2,060
1,848
765
558
101
364
1,193
393
548
208
283
1,004
433
1,407
6,286
504
610
2,569
3,638
3,842
3,316
138
3,529
2,490
4,979
2,177
1,775
599
613
357
2,267
94
834
2,747
1,203
6,148
467
2,880
2,132
2,110
2,955
3,503
2,544
1,316
2,905
3,859
15,213
985
2,558
3,051
4,853
4,695
2,104
1,426
2,432
1,069
2,278
1,547
884
1,425
5,274
1,828
5,560
3,679
5,816
4,667
6,324
5,312
2,750
2,036
3,826
2,444
4,678
1,895
1,973
540
3,495
2,901
11,856
2,363
1,038
3,199
4,738
3,506
4,185
1,284
2,714
1,176
637
3,752
2,542
3,558
300
3,222
7,373
3,316
2,476
3,165
1,382
2,129
160
755
2,045
810
430
770
380
910
830
1,645
6,988
1,470
1,837
4,713
6,924
5,121
5,160
341
4,175
3,560
6,495
2,335
2,010
462
1,598
895
4,2(19
136
1,059
2,792
3,515
7,394
1,251
3,641
2,475
3,019
4,600
4,403
3,201
2,677
3,750
4,829
19,027
1,732
2,929
4,299
7,241
6,615
3,277
2,562
2,999
1,418
3,140
1,992
1,373
2,419
7,606
2,426
7,3.81
4,749
7,927
7,490
9,841
8,298
4,679
2,608
5,795
3,565
7,551
2,384
2,563
830
5,747
3,825
14,459
2,707
1,668
3,376
6,317
5,628
5,970
'-' , 759
3,302
750
326
3 819
Macon
2,331
4,526
Martin
78
McDowell -.
2,503
4,002
Mitchell
3,251
2,279
Moore
2,485
Nash
668
798
124
227
Orange
Pamlico
1,093
759
167
Pender
233
154
Person
600
Pitt
221
Polk...
1,467
6,519
741
763
Rockingham
3,127
4,545
Rutherford..
4,718
Sampson
4,511
Scotland. ._
191
Stanly
4,174
Stokes
2,915
Surry .
4,716
Swain
1,964
Transylvania
Tyrrell...
1,728
274
Union .
875
294
2,471
Warren
75
675
Watauga
3,159
Wavne
1,649
Wilkes
6,7is
528
3.554
Yancev ....... ..
2,539
Totals
:iiis,i5l
230,175
294,441
185,627
362,009
289,415
497,657
212,561
10«
Election Returns
VOTE FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR, 1924-1932
Counties
Alamance..
Alexander. _
Alleghany. .
Anson
Ashe
Avery
Beaufort
Bertie
Bladen
Brunswick..
Buncombe..
Burke
Cabarrus...
Caldwell. ..
Camden
Carteret
Caswell
Catawba...
Chatham...
Cherokee...
Chowan
Clay
Cleveland..
Columbus..
Craven
Cumberland
Currituck. .
Dare
Davidson...
Davie
Duplin
Durham
Edgecombe.
Forsyth
Franklin
Gaston
Gates
Graham
Granville
Greene
Guilford....
Halifax
Harnett
Haywood...
Henderson. .
Hertford
Hoke
Hyde
Iredell
Jackson
Johnston
Jones
1924
o
S
.N
si
955
297
658
404
350
461
084
836
703
130
536
097
533
383
433
311
085
845
430
765
735
008
795
848
081
316
590
837
431
813
995
200
452
871
998
693
672
865
243
136
373
342
349
569
084
985
165
676
512
13S
787
717
*3
3,180
2,242
1,220
209
3,891
2,150
1,276
83
584
1,227
5,982
3,199
3,596
2,464
136
1,822
439
6,173
2,731
2,308
79
1,222
1,789
1,425
221
1,085
36
625
6,191
2,676
1,498
2,793
87
5,243
268
3,484
194
909
430
151
6,435
184
2,823
2,476
3,252
106
112
320
3,600
2,800
4,826
146
1926
co S
4,360
2,320
1,412
1,694
3,908
416
1,242
729
1,457
1,173
8,699
3,550
4,804
2,893
152
2,389
817
5,171
3,133
1,842
228
S45
3,040
3,126
1,237
1,835
346
713
6,144
1,953
2,100
3,228
794
4,790
843
4,443
950
858
1,006
503
6,589
1,139
3,278
3,672
3,273
472
753
307
4,774
2,550
6,079
425
C4
a
>Stf
3,304
2,203
1,073
64
3,404
1,499
197
21
439
1,026
4,411
3,185
3,997
1,580
14
1,112
273
4,688
2,002
2,063
11
952
797
1,002
81
902
12
508
5,971
2,450
650
1,213
16
2,849
138
2,054
175
976
109
31
4,445
109
2,705
1,568
3,683
31
35
54
2,423
2,624
4,946
30
1930
«
M o
■3 a
6,346
2,471
1,711
2,122
4,014
399
3,468
1,423
1,468
1,584
15,338
4,581
6,868
4,844
531
2,936
946
7,225
3,324
2,378
545
1,243
5,013
2,673
2,282
2,691
601
1,037
8,339
1,893
2,681
4,803
2,627
7,971
1,605
10,855
512
1,218
1,961
793
11,699
3,487
4.96S
5,229
3,920
813
1,070
352
7,393
3,862
8,367
531
1932
5,550
2,152
1,386
134
3,629
1,797
1,260
61
514
1,521
12,413
3,929
4,305
3,192
51
2,005
226
5,774
2,626
2,632
23
1,164
2,360
1,319
685
967
13
420
6,832
2,104
1,047
3,049
209
5,607
170
7,065
79
1,181
203
103
9,641
191
3,248
2,755
3,981
57
86
87
4,256
3,255
5,175
133
2
o
a
5.
©
si
o c;
aid
7,774
2,875
1,910
4,156
4,636
1,027
5,371
3,089
2,108
2,156
18,193
5,817
8,246
5,340
895
3,407
1,765
8,143
4,023
1,303
1,583
1,318
7,940
5,046
4,415
4,916
1,763
1,233
9,385
2,285
4,457
7,731
5,832
7,322
4,219
12,423
1,159
1,347
3,729
2,461
18,713
6.3S4
6,208
6,679
5,178
1,782
1,738
968
7,825
4,324
9,384
1,417
5,165
2,104
829
276
4,005
2,729
892
66
872
1,797
'8,989
5,003
3,741
3,915
66
1,797
222
6,100
2,901
3,207
43
1,297
2,052
805
357
937
29
516
6,606
2,789
1,258
2,694
253
6,713
214
5,686
83
1,224
242
92
10,119
281
2,807
3,146
4,363
102
75
134
4,234
2,901
4,146
124
Vote fob Senator
107
Vote for United States Senator, 1924-1932 — Continued
Counties
Lee
Lenoir
Lincoln
Macon
Madison
Martin
McDowell
Mecklenburg.
Mitchell
Montgomery.
Moore
Nash
New Hanover
Northampton.
Onslow
Orange
Pamlico
Pasquotank...
Pender
Perquimans...
Person
Pitt
Polk
Randolph
Richmond
Robeson
Rockingham..
Rowan
Rutherford...
Sampson
Scotland
Stanly
Stokes
Surry
Swain
Transylvania.
Tyrrell..
Union
Vance
Wake
Warren
Washington..
Watauga
Wavne
Wilkes
Wilson
Yadkin
Yancey
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1924
Si
fed
874
,285
948
,648
,414
,022
082
,970
745
,517
878
,281
268
,713
,172
,036
909
,317
,229
570
639
403
,656
452
,724
777
,489
350
171
,097
498
,959
,314
511
,795
,837
648
,782
,263
,318
,829
802
,405
,797
,573
,777
,393
,635
295,404
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675
396
2,673
2,212
3,045
190
2,543
2,110
1,604
2,059
1,849
757
501
96
364
1,185
393
236
209
270
982
416
1,408
6,285
503
614
2,573
3,696
3,847
3,279
145
3,520
2,485
4,970
2,177
1,770
448
607
354
2,084
94
812
2,659
1,203
6,147
468
2,874
2,126
184,393
1926
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1,374
1,375
3,115
2,542
955
910
2,934
2,877
429
2,266
2,091
1,833
1,050
941
744
1,547
436
609
681
476
1,124
1,617
1,711
5,440
2,414
2,352
3,188
3,372
3,909
2,564
716
3,263
2,137
4,623
1,876
1,919
500
1,359
1,382
4,554
1,033
988
2,923
2,731
3,550
896
935
2,219
218,934
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277
2,847
2,079
1,789
38
2,815
424
925
1,465
1,170
242
103
118
104
741
103
84
98
72
408
127
1,366
5,487
265
252
1,944
1,561
2,861
2,620
61
2,879
2,607
4,607
1,840
1,908
278
228
165
493
20
618
2,895
997
6,014
110
2,131
2,259
1930
142,891
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1,499
1,922
4,023
2,829
1,692
1,732
3,922
7,678
938
2,352
2,558
2,699
2,363
1,660
1,099
1,616
1,091
1,785
945
663
1,661
3,232
2.035
5,602
2,597
4,041
5,862
7,622
5,529
3,015
1,745
4,633
2,653
6,449
2,036
2,383
435
2,266
1,595
7,540
1,327
1,139
2,836
4,400
3,076
2,544
1,170
2,793
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2,400
3,127
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4,106
2,126
2,007
2,158
448
863
109
198
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316
207
105
723
367
1,554
5,785
590
564
3,979
4,946
718
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171
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5,033
2,232
1,999
156
622
239
1,427
65
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2,755
2,221
4,022
483
2,267
2,526
210,761
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2,387
4,570
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2,596
5,740
3,294
2,332
2,490
593
1,015
149
224
1,237
758
272
270
209
679
246
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6,385
868
858
3,240
4,677
4,889
4.606
248
4,290
2,949
4,822
1,976
1,797
288
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225
2,292
97
703
3,230
1,724
6,745
536
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2,577
221,534
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FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT
Counties
Beaufort
Camden
Chowan
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Gates
Hertford...
Hyde
Martin
Pasquotank.
Perquimans
Pitt
Tyrrell
Washington
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443
708
606
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668
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712
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1,178
550
3,285
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478
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496
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9,501
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691
1,075
1,284
1,021
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1,281
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2,813
2,145
870
5,019
548
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559
603
1,187
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857
367
1,736
1,883
709
3,304
479
1,458
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1,608
1,765
1,284
1,179
1,830
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3,751
2,977
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1,640
32,790
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430
2,523
142
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113
498
1,243
236
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74
2,465
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3,219
188
1,161
5,234
332
3,502
137
6,435
206
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2,092
292
1,374
2,701
553
2,017
284
4,575
276
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1 , 734
74
1,033
2,002
124
1,669
85
3,196
111
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1,761
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2,207
144
1,339
37
2,686
56
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2,484
370
889
4,148
1,082
2,692
315
5,993
469
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16,312
1,169
7,484
24,129
3,005
15,987
1,124
34,325
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Counties
Frank W. Hancock, Jr.
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L. L. Wall
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1,790
14,290
3,799
2,375
7,557
3,535
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2,894
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17,326
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7,813
7,994
19,284
2,9S3
5,275
2,375
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1,101
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18,093
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11 s Election Returns
VOTE ON CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
BY COUNTIES, 1932
Proposed Amendments to the Constitution of North Carolina sub-
mitted to a vote of the people at the tieneral Election November 8,
1932.
Constitutional Amendment Adopted
Amendment to Section 7, Article X — Protecting Insurance for
wives and children against creditors of insured.
Chapter 262, Public Laws, 1931.
That Section 7 of Article X of the Constitution of North Carolina
be amended by adding at the end thereof;
And the policy shall not be subject to claims of creditors of the
insured during the life of the insured, if the insurance issued is
for the sole use and benefit of the wife and/or children.
Constitutional Amendment Rejected
Amendment to Section 3, Article IV — Providing for Solicitorial
Districts.
Chapter 367, Public Laws, 1931.
That Section 23 of Article IV of the Constitution of North Caro-
lina be amended to read as follows:
Sec. 23. Solicitorial Districts. The State shall be divided into
twenty solicitorial districts, for each of which a solicitor shall be
chosen by the qualified voters thereof, as is prescribed for members
of the General Assembly, who shall hold office for the term of four
years, and prosecute on behalf of the State, in all criminal actions
in the Superior Courts, and advise the officers of justice in his
district. But the General Assembly may reduce or increase the
number of districts.
Constitutional Amendment Rejected
Amendment to Section 24, Article IV — Making term of office of
Sheriff and Coroner four years instead of two.
Chapter 47, Public Laws, 1931.
That Section 24 of Article IV of the Constitution of North
Carolina be amended to read as follows:
Sec. 24. Sheriffs and Coroners. In each county a sheriff and a
coroner shall be elected by the qualified voters thereof as is
Vote on Constitutional Amendments 119
prescribed for the members of the General Assembly and shall hold
their offices for a period of four years. In each township there shall
be a constable elected in like manner by the voters thereof who
shall hold his office for a period of two years. When there is no
coroner in a county the Clerk of the Superior Court for the county
may appoint one for special cases. In case of a vacancy existing
for any cause in any of the offices created by this section the com-
missioners of the county may appoint to such office for the un-
expired term.
Constitutional Amendment Rejected
Amendment to Section 2, Article XII— Permitting proposed con-
stitutional amendments to be voted on at a special election.
Chapter 104, Public Laws, 1931.
That Section 2 of Article XIII of the Constitution of North
Carolina be amended to read as follows:
Sec. 2. How the Constitution May be Altered. No part of the
Constitution of this State shall be altered unless the bill to alter
the same shall have been agreed to by three-fifths of each house of
the General Assembly. And the amendment or amendments, so
agreed to, shall be submitted either at the next general election, or
at a special election to be called for the purpose, as the General
Assembly may determine, to the qualified voters of the whole
State, in such manner as may be prescribed by law. And in the
event of their adoption by a majority of the votes cast, such amend
ment or amendments shall become a part of the Constitution of the
State.
120
Election Returns
VOTE ON FOREGOING AMENDMENTS
Counties
Alamance-
Alexander.
Alleghany.
Anson
Ashe
Avery
Beaufort. ..
Bertie
Bladen
Brunswick.
Buncombe.
Burke
Cabarrus. .
Caldwell...
Camden
Carteret
Caswell
Catawba.. .
Chatham..
Cherokee..
Chowan
Clay.
Cleveland...
Columbus.-.
Craven
Cumberland.
Currituck
Dare
Davidson...
Davie
Duplin
Durham
Edgecoml>p-.
Forsyth
Franklin
Gaston
Gates
Graham
Granville
Greene
Guilford
Halifax
Harnett
Haywood
Henderson _ .
Hertford
Hoke
Hyde
Iredell
Jackson
Johnston
Jones
Lee
Lenoir
Lincoln
Amendmen
: Protecting
Amendment Providing
Insurance
for Wives
for Sol
citorial
and Children
Districts
For
Against
For
Against
5,142
1,942
2,083
2,460
1,684
1,078
992
1,240
417
845
156
921
2,702
913
978
1,859
1,420
2,883
515
3,015
1,123
622
273
761
3,084
1,748
1,496
2,223
1,743
668
776
1,231
1,487
1,442
797
1,789
996
383
437
463
15,649
3,932
9,437
6,753
1.795
1,543
876
1,781
6,395
1,939
3,229
2,929
2,266
2,714
873
3,356
483
133
154
78
1,423
236
1,293
425
1,036
347
431
575
4,801
2,260
2,743
2,518
2,035
2,285
615
2,791
1.876
1,317
1,028
1,777
776
347
352
542
445
124
217
133
4,574
2,481
2,181
3,533
2,523
1,723
1,089
2,495
3,003
597
1,368
1,002
3,015
1.663
1,256
2,537
829
452
484
566
748
119
335
153
5,485
4,744
2.351
5,794
1,064
531
373
732
2,751
1,527
1,083
1,901
6,906
1,352
3,968
2,263
4,023
843
2,194
1,541
12,483
2,207
6,092
4,589
2,030
1,527
litis
1,995
10.598
2,062
5.447
3,375
534
243
115
425
486
519
562
604
2.089
1,389
1.252
1,827
1,096
494
460
811
15,648
3,281
7,885
6,254
3,504
1,426
2,434
1,895
3,223
3,013
1,096
4,525
5,169
1,798
2,836
2,459
4.191
1,393
2.345
2,132
1.573
244
554
505
939
554
332
860
405
274
208
294
5.034
3,519
2.160
4,817
2,884
1,688
1,910
1,909
5,246
2,366
2,587
2,970
784
266
225
415
1,750
1,251
729
1,643
2,837
792
1,273
1,245
2,022
1,689
948
2,081
Vote on Constitutional Amendments 121
Vote on Foregoing Amendments — Continued
Macon
Madison
Martin
McDowell
Mecklenburg-.
Mitchell
Montgomery..
Moore
N'asli
N'ew Hanover.
Northampton.
Onslow
Orange
I'amlico..
Pasquotank
Pender
Perquimans...
Person
Pitt
Polk
Randolph
Richmond
Robeson
Rockingham..
Rowan
Rutherford
Sampson
Scotland
Stanly _.
Stokes
Surry..
Swain
Transylvania..
Tyrrell
I'nion
Vance
Wake _
Warren
Washington. . .
Watauga
Wayne.
Wilkes
Wilson
Yadkin
Yancey..
Counties
Totals.
Amendmen
t Protecting
Amendment Providing
Insurance
for Hives
for Solicitorial
and Children
Districts
For
Against
For
Against
1,540
766
623
1,132
1,884
1,113
724
1,521
2,122
655
833
1,199
2,806
1,408
1.941
1,686
14,059
3,460
6,656
6,233
1,180
708
439
979
1,487
1,751
448
2,139
2,814
1,643
1,224
2,458
3,732
2,069
1,994
2,835
4,610
713
2,541
1,328
1,199
1,398
423
1,564
967
855
487
988
1,725
1,005
898
1,207
1,155
289
433
502
2,023
423
985
935
941
717
547
749
910
174
312
2S7
1,213
675
551
820
3,690
2,789
1,753
3,798
1,827
991
1,298
1,385
1,970
5,375
691
5,551
3,660
813
1,667
1,673
4,463
2,356
1,533
3,834
4,021
1,287
1,697
1,877
7,194
2,785
3,442
3,752
6,276
3,095
3,504
4,242
2,607
2,015
1,153
2,372
1,504
554
694
840
2,489
2,428
1,154
2,973
2,090
1,290
774
1,570
3,477
2,114
2,163
2,442
1,325
346
893
486
2,378
501
1,364
837
573
244
232
304
3,009
1,571
1,221
2,197
1,705
850
1.042
1,010
8,884
5,141
5,534
6,237
1,137
998
411
1,306
1,396
402
458
667
1,373
1,964
989
2.043
3,726
2,115
1,941
3,006
2,808
1,861
1.263
2.464
3,767
1,032
1,984
1,567
1,403
1,542
643
1,666
1,542
1,439
773
1,455
304,885
145,448
150,881
199,903
122 Election Returns
Vote on Foregoing Amendments — Continunl
Counties
Amendment Making
Term of Office of Sheriffs
and Coroners Four Years
Instead of Two
Amendment Permitting
Constitutional Amendments
to be Voted on at Special
Election
•
For
Against
For
Against
Alamance-
Alexander . . -
3,431
1,712
456
1,093
750
320
1,632
762
680
649
x,534
1,403
4,874
1,137
292
702
593
4,256
766
821
450
429
3,316
1,099
1,232
1,223
597
500
3,009
806
1,430
3,837
3,009
7,584
694
7,267
166
937
1,798
948
9,358
2,261
846
3,158
3,014
985
536
238
2,394
2,600
2,671
336
854
1,391
3,532
1,498
1,031
2,252
3,633
1,678
3,115
1,712
2,243
742
11,488
2,095
3,772
4,166
399
718
867
3,376
3,395
2,853
645
355
4.661
3,260
2,183
3,312
738
378
6.713
993
2,392
4,431
1,854
6,261
2,555
4,947
689
1,050
1,896
849
8,670
3,056
5,088
3,721
2,979
619
887
536
6,395
2,527
4,822
704
2,042
1,959
2,477
442
199
942
662
420
1.410
633
731
494
10,239
1,040
3,326
1,208
387
749
520
3,182
2,794
1,392
Alleghany .
Anson _
Ashe .. . .- .
1,022
2,042
3,346
Avery -
Beaufort
Bertie _ ..
Bladen
Brunswick.. . .
924
2.596
1,256
1,927
999
Buncombe .
7,400
Burke
Cabarrus . . . - .
1,817
3,332
Caldwell
3,308
Camden
210
Carteret .. -
443
Caswell -
603
Catawba
2.854
Chatham
Cherokee -.. .. . . .
682 3 , 155
3,711 1.886
C howan
355
248
2.725
1,144
1,395
1,175
529
415
2,799
470
601
Clay
182
Cleveland
Columbus.. .
3,602
2,728
Craven .. .
Cumberland. _
Currituck
Dare
Davidson ... .. _.
1,431
2,995
583
222
5,823
Davie ..
811
Duplin
1,215 2.211
Durham
Edgecombe.-
4,492
1,956
6,233
472
5,757
149
662
1,237
405
S.974
2,227
1,328
3,294
2,631
1,035
369
186
2,499
2,260
1,807
253
691
2,740
2,112
Forsyth
5,654
Franklin.
2,145
Gaston
3,839
Gates
482
Graham .
740
( !ran ville .
2,043
Greene . .
787
(iuilford
7,254
Halifax
2,283
Harnett -
4,248
Haywood
2,758
Henderson .
2,259
535
Hoke... -.-
913
Hyde . _._
425
Iredell
5,017
2,098
Johnston .
4,055
599
Lee
1,878
Lenoir
1,341 1,594
Vote on Constitutional Amendments
Vote on Foregoing Amendments — Continued
123
Lincoln
Macon
Madison
Martin
McDowell
Mecklenburg..
Mitchell
Montgomery..
Moore
Nash
Mew Hanover .
Northampton.
Onslow
Orange _
Pamlico
Pasquotank...
Pender
Perquimans. _.
Person
Pitt.
Polk
Randolph
Richmond.. .
Robeson
Rockingham..
Rowan
Rutherford
.Sampson
Scotland
Stanly
Stokes. _
Surry
Swain
Transylvania. .
Tyrrell
Union
Vance.
Wake
Warren
Washington
Watauga
Wayne
Wilkes
Wilson
Yadkin
Yancey
Counties
Amendment Making
Term of Office of Sheriffs
and Coroners Four Y'ears
Instead of Two
For
,489
955
986
,242
,489
,799
681
826
,603
,869
.384
797
765
,203
343
,187
801
440
750
,301
,447
,529
093
,694
572
843
,130
111
876
750
502
899
770
567
174
556
204
777
714
398
488
284
331
894
906
Totals .
187,834
Against
2,566
1,633
2,375
1,498
2,448
8,760
1,877
2,382
2,911
4,201
2,299
1,919
1,325
1,624
1,050
1,289
1.070
734
1 , 103
4,479
1,530
6,185
2,457
4,803
2,617
5,103
6,348
3,175
1,025
3,810
2,063
3,142
1.053
1.534
590
3,574
1,607
S.705
1,455
958
2,371
3,731
3,219
3,135
2,092
2,901
Amendment Permitting
Constitutional Amendments
to be Voted on at Special
Flection
For
275,458
1.117
776
992
797
2.049
7.586
520
776
1,302
1,873
2,841
481
451
1,003
465
1.143
380
267
622
1,555
1,275
765
1,813
1,603
2,182
4,080
2,859
1,099
700
1,397
947
2.296
983
1,401
285
1.616
863
4,248
437
391
1,051
2,019
1,280
2,235
703
892
162,598
Against
2,238
1,263
1,552
1,346
1,876
7,221
1,121
2,210
2 801
3,369
1.956
1,734
1,093
1,417
639
981
973
503
His
4,397
1,342
6,034
1,901
4,200
2,1211
4,387
5,316
2,624
953
3.236
1,612
2,745
521
986
359
2.330
1,337
8,400
1,390
761
2.204
3.376
2,524
1,664
1 . 724
1.645
226,252
PART V
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
1. Executive Officials.
2. Justices of the Supreme Court.
3. Senators and Representatives in Congress.
4. Members of the General Assembly.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
EXECUTIVE OFFICIALS
J. C. B. EHRINGHAUS
GOVERNOR
J. C. B. Ehringhaus, of Pasquotank County, was born at Elizabeth
City, N. C, February 5, 1882. Son of Erskine and Carrie C.
(Matthews) Ehringhaus. A.B. University of North Carolina, 1901;
LL.B. 1903; Phi Beta Kappa Scholarship Society; Delta Kappa
Epsilon; Gimghoul. Lawyer. Member of House of Representatives
1905 and 1907. Solicitor First Judicial District, 1911-1923. Member
North Carolina Bar Association and American Bar Association.
First President Elizabeth City Rotary Club. Episcopalian. Married
Miss Matilda Bradford Haughton of Washington, N. C, January
4, 1912. Three children, J. C. B.; Jr., Haughton and Matilda (twins).
Address: Raleigh, N. C.
On November 8, 1932, he was elected Governor by a majority of
285,096, the largest majority ever given a candidate for Governor
in North Carolina, and the largest vote ever given 'any candidate
for office in North Carolina.
STACEY WILSON WADE
SECRETARY OF STATE
Stacey W. Wade, Democrat, was born in Morehead City, Au-
gust 18, 1875. Son of Captain David B. and Sarah (Royal) Wade.
Attended public and private schools of Morehead City. General
Insurance. Was Chief Deputy Insurance Commissioner for twelve
years with Col. James R. Young, Commissioner, succeeding him
January 12, 1921, as State Commissioner of Insurance; was Presi-
dent of Southern Group of Securities Commissioners, Vice-President
National Association of (Blue Sky) Securities Commissioners,
President of Fire Marshals' Association of North America and a
member of the Executive Committee of the National Convention
of Insurance Commissioners. Resigned as Insurance Commissioner
November 15, 1927, to enter private business in Durham, returning
to Raleigh after two and a half years. In the primary of June 4,
1932, he was nominated Democratic candidate for Secretary of
L28 Biographical Sketches
State by a majority of 38,623 and was elected November 8, 1932,
by a majority of 288,523, the largest vote ever given a candidate
for Secretary of State. Mason. Methodist; Steward. Married
Miss Clyde Mann, of Morehead City and Hyde County, December
7, 1905; three children, Louis Mann. Elizabeth Stacey and Clyde
Mann. Address: Raleigh, N. C.
BAXTER DURHAM
STATE AUDITOR
Baxter Durham, Democrat, was born in Durham, N. C, August
20, 1878. Son of Columbus and Lila (Walters) Durham. At-
tended public schools of Durham and Raleigh, 1S84-1892; Raleigh
Male Academy, 1892-1894; Wake Forest College, 1894-1895. Trav-
eling Auditor, Department of State Auditor. Served as private,
sergeant, captain and major in National Guard, 1907-1919. Elected
State Auditor, November 2, 1920; reelected, November 4, 1924;
reelected, November 6, 1928; reelected, November 8, 1932. Presi-
dent National Association of State Auditors, Comptrollers and
Treasurers, 1923 and 1924, 1927 and 1928. President of Tar Heel
Club, Raleigh, 1932-1933. Baptist. Address: Raleigh, N. C.
CHARLES M. JOHNSON
STATE TREASURER
Charles Marion Johnson, Democrat, of Pender County, was born
April 9, 1891, in Burgaw, N. C. Son of M. H. and Minnie (Norris)
Johnson. Attended Burgaw High School, Buie's Creek Academy,
Bingham Military School. Married Miss Ruth Moore, March 8,
1920. Deputy Clerk Superior Court Pender County, four years;
District Tax Supervisor, 3d N. C. Tax District, two years; Field
Auditor, State Auditor's office, one year; Deputy State Auditor,
three years; Executive Secretary, County Government Advisory
Commission, four years; Director Local Government from March
4, 1931, to November 17, 1932, when appointed by Governor Gard-
ner State Treasurer of North Carolina. Address: Raleigh, N. C.
ARCH TURNER ALLEN
SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION
Arch Turner Allen, Democrat, was born in Alexander County
on January 10, 1875. Son of George J. and Mary Elizabeth
Executive Officials 129
(Campbell) Allen. Attended the one-teacher school at Rocky
Spring. For one year was under the tutelage of Dr. Brantley
York. Was prepared for college at the Vashti High School and
the Patton School at Morganton. Graduated from the University
of North Carolina in 1897; D. C. L. Elon College, 1924; LL.D.
University of N. C, 1927. Member of the Phi Beta Kappa and
Phi Delta Kappa. Spent one term at Columbia University. Prin-
cipal of the Statesville Public Schools, 1897-1904; principal Wash-
ington, N. C, Public Schools, 1904-1905; principal Dil worth School,
Charlotte, 1905-1907; superintendent of the Graham City Schools,
1907-1910; superintendent Salisbury City Schools, 1910-1917; mem-
ber Text Book Commission, 1916; member State Board of Ex-
aminers and Institute Conductors, 1917-1919; secretary State
Board of Examiners, 1919-1921; director Teacher Training, State
Department of Education, 1921-1923; appointed Superintendent of
Public Instruction, June 11, 1923, to fill unexpired term of Dr.
Brooks, elected Superintendent of Public Instruction on Novem-
ber 4, 1924; reelected November 6, 1928; reelected November 8,
1932. Identified with the North Carolina Teachers' Assembly for
many years. President of Department of City Superintendents in
1915; President of the N. C. Teachers' Assembly in 1917; Secretary,
1919-1922; President of the National Council of State Superintend-
ents and Commissioners of Education, 1928. Married Miss Claribel
McDowell, June 19, 1909. Two children, Arch Turner, Jr., and
Elizabeth McDowell. Methodist; Jr. O. U. A. M. Address: Ral-
eigh, N. C.
DENNIS G. BRUMMITT
ATTORNEY GENERAL
Dennis G. Brummitt, Democrat, of Granville County, was born
on a farm in Granville County, February 7, 1881. Son of Thomas
Jefferson and Caroline (Bradford) Brummitt. LL.B. of Wake
Forest College, 1907. Secretary of Granville County Democratic
Executive Committee, 1908-1910; chairman, 1910-1914, 1922-1924.
Member of State Democratic Executive Committee, 1913-11)24;
Chairman, July, 1927-July, 1928. Mayor of Oxford, 1909-1913. Mem-
ber Board of Town Commissioners, 1913-1915. Representative in
General Assembly, 1915, 1917, 1919; speaker of House of Repre-
sentatives, 1919. Trustee Oxford Graded Schools, 1921-1925. Dem-
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ocratic Elector, 1920. Trustee of State College, 1923-1925. Trustee
Wake Forest College, 1925. Member General Board Baptist State
Convention, 192G. Elected Attorney-General, 1924; reelected No-
vember 6, 1928; reelected, November S, 1932. Mason; Odd Fellow;
W. O. W.; M. W. A.; Jr. O. U. A. M. Baptist. Kiwanian. Married,
June 25, 1912, Miss Kate Hays Fleming. Home Address: Oxord. N. C.
WILLIAM A. GRAHAM
COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE
William A. Graham, Democrat, of Lincoln County, was born at
old Graham homestead in same county. Son of Major William A.
and Julia (Lane) Graham. Attended Piedmont Seminary, Hor-
ner Military School, and University of North Carolina. Farmer.
State Senator from the Twenty-fifth Senatorial District, session
1923; Chairman Committee on Agriculture at that session. Ap-
pointed Commissioner of Agriculture by Governor Morrison, De-
cember 26, 1923, to fill unexpired term of his father, deceased.
Elected, November 4, 1924, to succeed himself for a full term; re-
elected, November 6, 192S; reelected, November 8, 1932. Has been
active in Democratic Party all his life; been member of precinct
executive committee since becoming twenty-one years of age, now
chairman; member executive committee, Lincoln County, also a
former member of the State Democratic Executive Committee.
Member executive committee Southern Association of Commis-
sioners of Agriculture; former member of executive committee and
president of National Association of Commissioners, Secretaries and
Departments of Agriculture; Member of the National Conference
on Weights and Measures. K. of P. Baptist. Address: Raleigh.
N. C.
ARTHUR L. FLETCHER
COMMISSIONER OF LABOR
Arthur Lloyd Fletcher, Democrat, was born in Ashe County,
near Jefferson, July 7, 1881. Son of Rev. James Floyd and Louisa
(Parker) Fletcher. Attended Oak Hill Academy and Bridle Creek
Academy, in Grayson County, Va., 1897-1899; Wake Forest College,
B.A. 1907; Wake Forest Law School and University Law School,
obtaining law license in 1907. Chief Income Tax Division, Office
Executive Officials l.il
Collector Internal Revenue, Raleigh, 1919 to 1921; Deputy State In-
surance Commissioner, 1921 to 1922. Captain 113th F. A. 30th
Div., A. E. F. ( 1917-1919. Captain N. C. National Guard, 1920-
1929; Major Ordnance Corps, N. C. N. G., since 1929; Major U. S.
Officers Reserve Corps. Member of American Legion since its
organization; Department Historian for ten years; Past Commander
Raleigh Post No. 1. Mason. Baptist. Author History 113th F. A.,
History N. C. Department of the American Legion. Married Miss
Mae Pitzer, of Kernersville, November 1. 1905. Actively engaged
in newspaper work from 1907 to 1916 with Raleigh Times, Rock-
ingham Post, Durham Sun, Lexington Dispatch, and Raleigh rep-
resentative of Charlotte Observer, Asheville Citizen and Winston-
Salem Journal; on the Mexican Border with the National Guard
as correspondent of the News & Observer and army field clerk at
Brigade Headquarters. Address: Raleigh, N.. C.
DANIEL CLINTON BONEY
INSURANCE COMMISSIONER
Daniel Clinton Boney, Democrat, was born in Elkin, N. C, De-
cember 6, 1895. Son of H. F. and Susan (McKinnie) Boney. At-
tended grammar and high schools of Elkin and Kinston; Univer-
sity of North Carolina, 1922. Lawyer. Appointed Insurance Com-
missioner by Governor McLean, November 15, 1927, to fill un-
expired term; elected November 6, 1928; reelected, November S,
1932. Served in World War with 113th Field Artillery, A. E. F.,
June, 1917, to December, 1919. Kappa Sigma; Junior Order:
Gimghouls, University of North Carolina. Presbyterian. Married,
October 3, 1928, to Miss Charlotte Elizabeth Johnson. Address:
Raleigh, N. C.
ALLEN J. MAXWELL
COMMISSIONER OF REVENUE
Allen J. Maxwell was born in Duplin County, January 24, 1ST.'!.
Son of Hugh G. and Nancy (Maready) Maxwell. Attended Golds-
boro public schools. Mayor Whiteville, 1898; Clerk State Senate,
1899; Principal Clerk, 1901-1910; Clerk N. C. Corporation Com-
mission, 1910-1917; member Corporation Commission, 1917-1929;
ex-officio, Securities Commissioner, 1925-1929; President National
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Association Securities Commissioners, 1927; Vice-President Na-
tional Association Railroad and Utilities Commissioners, 1929.
Appointed Commissioner of Revenue by Governor Gardner in
March, 1929, until January 1, 1933, succeeding Governor R. A.
Doughton, who had been appointed Highway Commissioner. Bap-
tist. Married Miss Delia May Ward, April, 1893. Address:
Raleigh, N. C.
EDWIN BEDFORD JEFFRESS
HIGHWAY COMMISSIONER
Edwin B. Jeffress, was born in Canton, Haywood County, at "Gar-
den Creek," May 29, 1887. Son of Charles J. and Maria Love (Os-
borne) Jeffress. Attended Salisbury High School; graduated
Asheville High School, 1903; University of North Carolina, A.B
1907. Publisher Greensboro Daily News and Greensboro Record.
Teacher, 1907-1909. Reporter, Asheville Gazette-News, 1909-1911;
Correspondent, 1911; Business Manager, Secretary-Treasurer and
President Greensboro Neics. 1911-1918; member Associated Press;
American Newspaper Publishers' Association; Southern News-
paper Publishers' Association; Audit Bureau of Circulations;
North Carolina Press Association, Secretary-Treasurer, 1920-
1921; National Advertising Executives' Association; North Caro-
lina Advertising Managers' Association; Vice-President Greens-
boro Chamber of Commerce, 1921, President, 1922-1923; Presi-
dent Community Chest, 1930. Director University Alumni Asso-
ciation, 1924-1927; North Carolina Bank and Trust Company, 1929;
Roaring Gap, Inc., 1929; Greensboro Historical Museum, 1927-1929.
Mayor Greensboro, 1925-1929; President World War Memorial
Stadium Commission; member County Board of Health; member
Kiwanis Club; Merchants' and Manufacturers' Club; Greensboro
and Sedgefield Country Clubs. Appointed by Governor Gardner
Chairman of the Reorganized State Highway Commission in May,
1931, until April 1, 1935. Mason; Knight Templar; Shriner; D.
O. K. K.; Moose; Elks; Phi Beta Kappa honorary society, Uni-
versity, 1907; Sons of American Revolution. Episcopalian; Vestry-
man, 1922-1928; Junior Warden, 1926. Married Miss Louise Bond
Adams, July 17, 1913. Address: Greensboro, N. C.
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JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT
WALTER PARKER STACY
CHIEF JUSTICE
Walter Parker Stacy, born Ansonville, N. C, December 26, 1884;
son of Rev. L. E. and Rosa (Johnson) Stacy; educated Weaverville
(N. C.) College, 1895-98, Morven (N. C.) High School, 1899-1902,
University of North Carolina, A.B. 1908, attended Law School, same,
1908-09, LL.D. (hon.) 1923; married Maude DeGan Graff, of Lake
Placid Club, N. Y., June 15, 1929; practiced law in partnership with
Graham Kenan, 1910-16; represented New Hanover County in
General Assembly of N. C, 1915; Judge Superior Court, 8th Judicial
District, 1916-20; elected, 1920, Associate Justice Supreme Court of
North Carolina for full term; appointed by Governor A. W. McLean,
March 16, 1925, to succeed Chief Justice Hoke (resigned) and in
1926 nominated without opposition in primary and elected Chief
Justice Supreme Court for 8-year term, now serving; member
American and North Carolina Bar Associations, General Alumni
Association University of North Carolina, (president, 1925-26);
lecturer summers, 1922-25 inclusive, in Law School University of
North Carolina, tendered deanship of same, 1923; lecturer North-
western University School of Law, summer sessions, 1926-27;
named by U. S. Board of Mediation, under Railway Labor Act,
as neutral arbitrator to serve on Board of Arbitration (six mem-
bers) and later elected chairman of board, to settle wage con-
troversy between the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and
certain Railroads in Southeastern Territory of U. S., 1927-28;
appinted by President Coolidge, 1928, member of Emergency Board
of five, under Railway Labor Act, to investigate and report re-
specting a dispute between officers and members of the Order of
Railway Conductors and Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, and
certain railroads located west of the Mississippi River; named by
U. S. Board of Mediation, January, 1931, to serve as neutral arbi-
trator, in controversy between Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
and New York Central, the "Big Four," and P. & L. E. Railroads,
and again in November, 1931, to serve as neutral arbitrator in con-
troversy between Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks,
etc., and Railway Express Agency. Appointed by President Hoover,
1932, member of Emergency Board of three, later elected chairman
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of board, to investigate and report concerning a number of questions
in difference between L. & A. and L. A. & T. Railways and certain
of their employees. Chairman Commission appointed to redraft
Constitution of North Carolina, 1931-32. Methodist. Democrat.
Residence: Wilmington, N. C; Office: Raleigh, N. C.
WILLIAM JACKSON ADAMS
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE
William Jackson Adams, Democrat, Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court, was born at Rockingham, January 27, 1860. Son
of Rev. S. D. and Mary (Jackson) Adams. A.B., University of
North Carolina, 1881; LL.D., 1924. Two-year law course at the
University; admitted to the bar in 1883 and began practicing at
Carthage. Member of the North Carolina House of Representa-
tives in 1893; of the State Senate in 1895 and of the Board of
Internal Improvements, 1899-1901. Appointed by Governor Glenn
as Judge of the Superior Court succeeding Judge Walter H. Neal,
resigned, in December, 1908, and elected to the same office in 1910
and 1918 for a term each of eight years. Resigned in September,
1921, upon appointment by Governor Morrison as Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court succeeding Justice W. R. Allen, deceased
and elected to the same office in 1922 for the unexpired term;
elected for a full term in 1926. Member of the American and
State Bar Associations. Married Miss Florence Wall, of Rocking-
ham. Methodist. Home address: Carthage, N. C; Office, Raleigh.
N. C.
HERIOT CLARKSON
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE
Heriot Clarkson. Democrat, of Charlotte, N. C, was born at
Kingville, Richland County, S. C, August 21, 1863. Son of Major
William and Margaret S. (Simmons) Clarkson. Educated at the
Carolina Military Institute of Charlotte, University Law School
at Chapel Hill. Licensed by the Supreme Court of North Carolina
to practice law, 1884. Immediately thereafter began the practice
of law at Charlotte, N. C. Alderman and Vice-Mayor of Char-
lotte, 1887-88, same posts in 1891-92. In 1899 member of House
of Representatives, known as "White Supremacy Legislature."
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In that Legislature he introduced and passed in the House a bill
which resulted in the establishment of the Textile Department of
the State College. City Attorney of Charlotte, 1901-04. Twice
codified the city ordinances of Charlotte, 1887 and 1901; legal ad-
viser under administration of Mayor T. L. Kirkpatrick. Solicitor
of Twelfth Judicial District, 1904-10. Author of "The Hornet's
Nest," appearing in the North Carolina Booklet of October, 1901.
Delivered address to the Society of the Cincinnati on "The Heroic
Incidents of the Life of General Francis Marion." On December
10, 1889, married Mary Lloyd Osborne, of which union there are
four living children. Mason; life member Lodge No. 31, A. F. and
A. M. at Charlotte; Noble of the Mystic Shrine (Oasis Temple);
Knights of Pythias; Jr. O. U. A. M.; member of the Society of
Sons of the Revolution; Society of the Cincinnati, and the Hugue-
not Society of South Carolina. At one time was Lieutenant of the
Hornet's Nest Riflemen of Charlotte. Thirty odd years director
in the Charlotte Y. M. C. A. One of the original founders of
the Crittenden Home and the Mecklenburg Industrial Home for
Women. For many years a director of the Chamber of Commerce
and "Made in the Carolinas" Exposition. Chairman Anti-Saloon
League when the saloon was voted out of Charlotte, July 5, 1904.
Also President Anti-Saloon League when the saloon and distillery
were voted out of the State on May 27, 1908. Governor Robt.
B. Glenn presented him with the pen with which he signed the
Prohibition Proclamation. Trustee State Association Y. M. C. A.
of North Carolina. Was Chairman of the Good Roads Association
Committee that drafted the tentative good roads act passed by the
Legislature of 1921 substantially as drawn. He drafted the Meck-
lenburg Drainage Act and was the leader in establishing the Bel-
mont Vocational School at Charlotte, the first of its kind in the
State. Episcopalian; built St. Andrew's Chapel in Charlotte; ves-
tryman and senior warden of St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal
Church for many years. Appointed Justice of the Supreme Court
of North Carolina by Governor Cameron Morrison, May 2G, 1923;
elected for unexpired term of Justice Piatt D. Walker; elected
November 2, 1926, for term of eight years. LL.D.. University of
North Carolina, 1928. Residence: Charlotte, N. C; Office. Raleigh,
N. C.
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GEORGE WHITFIELD CONNOR
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE
George W. Connor was born October 24, 1872, at Wilson, X.
C. Son of Henry Groves and Kate Whitfield Connor. Preparer!
for college by Rev. B. S. Bronson, Wilson, N. C; A. B., University
of North Carolina, 1892; LL.D., University of North Carolina.
1928. Member of the House of Representatives from Wilson
County, 1909, 1911, 1913; Speaker of House of Representatives,
1913; Judge Superior Court, 1913-1924; appointed by Governor
Morrison Justice of the Supreme Court, succeeding Judge Hoke:
elected Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. 1924; reelected
for full term, November 6, 1928. Married Miss Bessie Hadley.
Address: Raleigh, N. C.
WILLIS JAMES BROGDEN
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE
Willis James Brogden, Democrat, Associate Justice of the Su-
preme Court, was born near Goldsboro, October IS, 1877; son of
Willis H. and Virginia (Robinson) Brogden. Attended Goldsboro
Graded Schools. 1891-1894; Ph.B., University of North Carolina,
1S9S; Trinity College and University Law School. Licensed to
practice in 1907. Member American and North Carolina Bar As-
sociations. Mayor of Durham, 1911-1915. A. F. and A. M.: Past
Master Durham Lodge No. 352; member Kiwanis Club. Appointed
by Governor McLean as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
to fill the unexpired term of Judge Varser; elected to same office
for the unexpired term, November 2, 1926; elected for the full term
November 6, 1928. Baptist. Married Miss Lila Markham, Janu-
ary 9, 1917. Home address: Durham, N. C. ; Office, Raleigh, X. C.
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UNITED STATES SENATORS
JOSIAH WILLIAM BAILEY
Josiah William Bailey, Democrat, of Raleigh, Wake County,
was born September 14, 1873, in Warrenton, N. C. Son of Rev.
Christopher Thomas Bailey (Williamsburg, Va.) and Annie Sarah
(Bailey) Bailey (Greenesville County, Va.) Educated in the public
schools of Raleigh, Raleigh Male Academy (Morson and Denson),
and Wake Forest College, A.B., 1893; Wake Forest Law School;
also private study of law under S. F. Mordecai, of Trinity Col-
lege. Editor Biblical Recorder 1893-1907. Licensed to practice
law, February, 190S. Member Wake County Bar Association; N.
C. Bar Association; American Bar Association. United States
Collector Internal Revenue, 1913-1921; Elector-at-Large N. C,
1908; member North Carolina Constitutional Commission, 1913-
1914; member Raleigh Township School Committee and Wake
County Board of Education. Baptist. Married Miss Edith Walker
Pou, 1916; five children, two boys and three girls. Elected to the
United States Senate November 4, 1930, for the term beginning
March 4, 1931, by a majority over his Republican opponent of
113,632. He is a member of the Senate Committees on Commerce,
Postoffices and Post Roads, Military Affairs and Claims. Home ad-
dress: Raleigh, N. C.
ROBERT RICE REYNOLDS
Robert Rice Reynolds, Democrat, of Asheville, was burn June IS,
1S84, in Asheville, N. C. Son of William T. and Mamie (Spears)
Reynolds. Educated in the public schools of Asheville, Weaverville
College and University of North Carolina, 1902-1905; University
Law School, 1907. Lawyer, Member of Buncombe County Bar
Association and North Carolina Bar Association. Solicitor loth Ju-
dicial District, 1911-1915; Captain Troop "B," N. C. N. G., 1912-
1916; Junior Order, Pythian, Elk, Woodman, Moose; Beta Theta
Pi College Fraternity; Methodist. Author of "Wanderlust" and
"Gypsy Trails." Married Miss Eva Brady.
Nominated in the Democratic Primary July 2, 1932. for United
States Senator by a majority of 107,436, the largest majority on
record in a Senatorial primary.
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Elected to the United States Senate November 8, 1932, for the
short term ending March 4, 1933, and the long term of six years
beginning March 4, 1933, by a majority over his Republican op-
ponent of over 262,000, the largest ever given in North Carolina to
a Senatorial candidate. Two children: Robert R. Reynolds, Jr., and
Miss Frances Reynolds. Home address: Asheville, N. C.
REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS
LINDSAY CARTER WARREN
(First District — Counties: Beaufort, Camden. Chowan, Currituck,
Dare, Gates, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Pitt,
Tyrrell and Washington. Population 224,768.)
Lindsay Carter Warren, Democrat, was born at Washington,
N. C, December 16, 1889. Son of Charles F. and Elizabeth Mutter
(Blount) Warren. Received his preparatory education at Bingham
School, Asheville, 1903-1906. Student University of North Carolina,
1906-190S; Law School, U. N. C, 1911-1912. Admitted to the bar,
February, 1912. Chairman Democratic Executive Committee of
Beaufort County, 1912-1925. County Attorney of Beaufort County,
1912-1925. State Senator, 1917 and 1919. President pro tempore
State Senate, 1919. Member Code Commission compiling Con-
solidated Statutes, 1919. Representative from Beaufort County,
1923. Trustee University of North Carolina, 1921-1925. Member
Alpha Tau Omega (College) fraternity. Elk. Episcopalian. Mar-
ried Miss Emily D. Harris, February, 1916; three children. Elected
to Sixty-ninth Congress, Seventieth Congress, Seventy-first Con-
gress, Seventy-second Congress, and reelected to the Seventy-third
Congress. Home address: Washington, N. C.
JOHN HOSEA KERR
{Second District — Counties: Bertie, Edgecombe, Greene, Halifax,
Lenoir, Northampton, Warren and Wilson. Population, 276,794.)
John Hosea Kerr, Democrat of Warrenton, was born at Yancey-
ville, N. G, December 31, 1873. Son of Capt. John H. Kerr, of
the Confederate Army, and Eliza Katherine (Yancey) Kerr. Was
a student in Bingham School, and graduated from Wake Forest
College, North Carolina, with degree of A.B., in 1895; studied
law and was admitted to the bar in 1895, when he moved to War-
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renton and entered upon the practice of his profession. Married
Miss Ella Foote, of Warrenton, and they have two sons — John
Hosea and James Yancey. Elected Solicitor of the Third District
and served eleven years; while solicitor, was elected Judge of the
Superior Court and served seven years. While serving on the
bench, was nominated for Congress to succeed Hon. Claude Kitchin,
deceased, and was elected at a special election held November 6,
1923, only one vote being cast against him. Elected to the Sixty-
ninth, Seventieth, Seventy-first and Seventy-second Congresses and
reelected to the Seventy-third Congress. Home address: Warren-
ton, N. C.
CHARLES LABAN ABERNETHY
( Third District — Counties: Carteret, Craven, Duplin, Jones,
Onslow, Pamlico, Pender, Sampson and Wayne. Population,
226,465.)
Charles Laban Abernethy, Democrat, from the Third District,
was born at Rutherford College, N. C, March 18, 1872. He is the
son of Rev. Turner Abernethy and Martha Ann Scott Abernethy.
He was educated at Mount Olive preparatory schools, Rutherford
College, and the Law School of the University of North Carolina.
Lawyer. Member of the Kiwanis Club of New Bern and New Bern
Chamber of Commerce. County Attorney of Carteret County,
1896. Presidential elector, 1900 and 1904. Solicitor Third and Fifth
Judicial Districts for about twelve years. Elected to the Sixty-
eighth, Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, Seventy-first and Seventy-second
Congresses, and reelected to the Seventy-third Congress. Odd
Fellow, K. of P., B. P. 0. E., Red Men, Jr. 0. U. A. M., Woodmen
of the World, Mason, Shriner. Methodist. Married Miss Minnie
May, in 1895. Has one son, Charles L. Abernethy, Jr., now practic-
ing law with him. Home address: New Bern. N. C.
EDWARD WILLIAM POU
(Fourth District — Counties: Chatham, Franklin. .Johnston, Nash.
Randolph, Vance and Wake. Population, 322,346.)
Edward William Pou, Democrat of Johnston County, was born
ut Tuskegee, Ala., September 9, 1863. Son of Edward W. and
Anna Maria (Smith) Pou. Was married to Carrie Haughton Ihrie
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in 1887 and has three living children. Presidential Elector in 1888
Elected Solicitor of the Fourth Judicial District of North Caro
lina in 1890, 1894 and 1898. Elected to the Fifty-seventh, Fifty
eighth. Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third
Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, Sixty-seventh, Sixty-eighth
Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, Seventy-first and Seventy-second Congresses
Reelected to Seventy-third Congress. Home address: Smithfield
N. C.
FRANKLIN WILLS HANCOCK. Jr.
(Fifth District — Counties: Caswell, Forsyth, Granville. Person,
Rockingham, Stokes, Surry. Population, 293,779.)
Franklin Wills Hancock, Jr., only son of Franklin Wills Han-
cock and Lizzie Hobgood Hancock, was born in Oxford, Granville
County, North Carolina, on November 1, 1894. He graduated
from the Oxford Graded Schools at the age of thirteen; attended
Horner Military Academy for one year, and completed his educa-
tion at the University of North Carolina. In 1915-16 he served
as secretary to his uncle, Colonel Frank Hobgood of Greensboro,
Special Assistant to the Attorney General of the United States.
In August, 1916. he received his license to practice law, and has
continued the practice of his profession in Oxford since that time.
In 1924 he was elected Chairman of the Democratic Executive
Committee of Granville County, and in the same year was also
elected Presidential Elector of the Fifth District of North Caro-
lina. He was elected without opposition to the State Senate in
1926, to represent the Twenty-first District, composed of Granville
and Person counties, and in 1928 was elected without opposition
to represent Granville County in the State House of Representa-
tives. He was recognized as a leader in both sessions, and was
co-author of the school bill which bears his name. He is recognized
as one of the leading business men in his section of the State.
He is a director of and attorney for The First National Bank of
Granville; vice president of the Granville Real Estate and Trust
Company, and trustee of the Colored Orphanage of North Caro-
lina. He is a Mason, Shriner, a member of the North Carolina
Bar Association, of Kappa Alpha Fraternity; is an ex-service
man, and is a member of the Oxford Rotary Club, and of the
Baptist Church. In 1917 he was married to Lucy Osborn Landis.
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oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hamlin Landis of Oxford.
He is the father of six children. On November 4, 1930, he was
elected to the Seventy-first Congress to fill the unexpired term
of Major Charles Manly Stedman, and, at the same time, was elected
to the Seventy-second Congress. Reelected to the Seventy-third
Congress. Home address: Oxford, N. C.
WILLIAM BRADLEY UMSTEAD
(Sixth District — Counties: Alamance, Durham, Guilford and
Orange. Population, 263,517.)
William Bradley Umstead, Democrat, of Durham, was born in
Durham County, May 13, 1895. 'Son of John W. and Lulie
(Lunsford) Umstead. Educated at Durham High School, University
of North Carolina, A.B. 1916; Law School Duke University 1919-
1920. Lawyer. Member Durham County Bar Association and North
Carolina Bar Association. Prosecuting Attorney Durham County
Recorder's Court, 1922-1926. Solicitor Tenth Judicial District, 1926-
1933. First Lieutenant 317th Machine Gun Battalion, 81st Division.
Engaged in actual service in France, 1917 to April, 1919. Junior
Order; Pythian; Mason. Methodist; Steward and Teacher of Men's
Bible Class. Married Miss Merle Davis of Rutherford County,
September 5, 1929. Address: Durham, N. C.
JEROME BAYARD CLARK
(Seventh District — Counties: Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Cum-
berland, Harnett, New Hanover and Robeson. Population, 268,579.)
Jerome Bayard Clark, Democrat of Fayetteville, was born April
5, 1882, in Elizabethtown. Son of John Washington and Catherine
Amelia (Blue) Clark. Educated at Clarkton High School, 1900-
1902; Davidson College; University of North Carolina Law School,
1906. Lawyer. Representative in General Assembly from Bladen
County, 1915. Presidential Elector Sixth District, 1916. Member
of State Judicial Conference, 1924-1928. Mason; Knights of Pythias.
Presbyterian. Married Miss Helen Purdie Robinson, June 2, 1908;
four children. Elected to Seventy-first and Seventy-second Con-
gresses. Reelected to the Seventy-third Congress. Home address:
Fayetteville, N. C.
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JOHN WALTER LAMBETH, Jk.
(Eighth District — Counties: Anson, Davidson, Davie, Hoke, Lee,
Montgomery, Moore, Richmond, Scotland, Union, Wilkes and Yad-
kin. Population, 316,614.)
John Walter Lambeth, Jr., Democrat, was born in Thomasville,
January 10, 1896. Son of John W. and Daisy (Sumner) Lambeth.
A.B. Trinity College, 1916; post graduate work Harvard School
of Business Administration, 1916-1917. State Senator, 1921. Mayor
f Thomasville, 1925-1929. Enlisted as private and served with
first American Army at St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne, World War.
Rotarian. Mason; Jr. O. U. A. M.; P. O. S. A.; Sons of the American
Revolution; American Legion; Kappa Sigma. Methodist. Furni-
ture Manufacturer, banker and farmer. Elected to the Seventy-
second Congress and reelected to the Seventy-third Congress.
Home Address: Thomasville, N. C.
it
ROBERT LEE DOUGHTON
(Ninth District — Counties: Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Cabar-
rus, Caldwell, Iredell, Rowan, Stanly and Watauga. Population,
262,213.)
Robert L. Doughton. Democrat, Laurel Springs, was born at
Laurel Springs, November 7, 1S63. Educated in the public schools
and at Laurel Springs and Sparta High Schools. Farmer and
stock raiser. Appointed a member of the Board of Agriculture in
1903. Elected to the State Senate from the Thirty-fifth District
in 1908. Served as a director of the State Prison from 1909 to
1911. Elected to the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-
fifth, Sixty-sixth, Sixty-seventh, Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth,
Seventieth. Seventy-first and Seventy-second Congresses. Re-
elected to the Seventy-third Congress. Home address: Laurel
Springs, N. C.
ALFRED LEE BULWINKLE
(Tenth District — Counties: Mecklenburg, Gaston, Cleveland,
Lincoln, Catawba, Burke, Madison. Mitchell, Yancey and Avery.
Population, 414,808.)
A. L. Bulwinkle, Democrat, Gastonia, Gaston County, N. C,
born April 21. 1883. Attended school at Dallas, N. C. Studied
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law at University of North Carolina under private instructor.
Lawyer. Prosecuting Attorney Municipal Court of City of Gas-
tonia, 1913-1916. Nominated as Senator for the General Assembly
by the Democratic Party, 1916, withdrew on account of military
service on the Mexican Border. Captain First Infantry, N. C. N. G.,
1909-1917. Major, commanding Second Battalion, 113th F. A., 55th
F. A. Brigade, 30th Division, 1917-1919.
Married Miss Bessie Lewis, Dallas. N. C, 1911; two children,
Frances McKean and Alfred Lewis. Served on various commit-
tees of the Democratic Party from 1904-1920. Member of Gaston
Post No. 23, American Legion. Mason, Jr. O. U. A. M., Member
of North Carolina and American Bar Associations; Lion. Lutheran.
Elected to Sixty-seventh, Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth, and Seventieth
Congresses, defeated for reelection to the Seventy-first Congress
and reelected to the Seventy-second Congress. Reelected to the
Seventy-third Congress. Home address: Gastonia, N. C.
ZEBULON WEAVER
(Eleventh District — Counties: Cherokee, Buncombe, Clay, Gra-
ham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Polk,
Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania. Population 293,392.)
Zebulon Weaver, Democrat of Buncombe County, was born in
Weaverville, N. C, May 12, 1872. He is the son of W. E. and
Hannah E. (Baird) Weaver. A.B. of Weaverville College, 1889.
Studied law at the University of North Carolina, 1894. Lawyer.
Represented Buncombe County in the General Assembly of North
Carolina in 1907 and 1909. State Senator, 1913 and 1915. After
a close contest with James J. Britt, Republican, in 1916, was
declared elected Representative in the Sixty-fifth Congress. Elected
to the Sixty-sixth, Sixty-seventh, Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth and
Seventieth Congresses. Reelected to the Seventy-second and to the
Seventy-third Congresses. Methodist. Married Miss Anna Hyman
of New Bern. N. C. Has five children. Home address: Asheville.
N. C.
MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
SENATORS
ALEXANDER HAWKINS GRAHAM
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
Alexander Hawkins Graham, Democrat, Lieutenant-Governor, was
born in Hillsboro, August 9, 1890. Son of John W. and Maggie F.
(Bailey) Graham. Educated in the Episcopal High School,
Alexandria, Va., 1906-1908. A.B. University of North Carolina, 1912.
Attended University of North Carolina Summer Law School 1912-
1913 and Harvard Law School, 1913-1914. Lawyer. Member North
Carolina Bar Association. Commissioned Second Lieutenant at
Fort Oglethorpe in 1917; promoted to First Lieutenant and then
to captain, serving overseas with the 81st Division. Member of
the House of Representatives, 1921, 1923, 1925; Speaker of House
of Representatives, 1929. Elected Lieutenant Governor, November
8, 1932. Episcopalian. Married Miss Kathleen Long in August, 1917.
Address: Hillsboro, N. C.
JOHN WILL AIKEN
(Twenty-fifth District — Counties: Catawba, Iredell and Lincoln.
One Senator.)
John Will Aiken, Senator from the Twenty-fifth Senatorial Dis-
trict, was born in Hickory, December 3, 1895. Son of Joseph Henry
and Martha (Robinson) Aiken. A.B. Lenoir-Rhyne College, 1915.
University of North Carolina Law School, 1915-1916. Lawyer. Mem-
ber the American Bar Association and the North Carolina Bar
Association. Attorney for city of Hickory, 1926; Municipal Judge,
1929-1930; County Attorney Catawba County, 1930; Chairman
Democratic Executive Committee, Catawba County, 1929-1932.
Sergeant N. C. Cavalry, Troop A, 1916-1917. Border service. First
Lieutenant (Pilot) U. S. Air Service. A. E. F. September 1917-
January, 1919. Pi Kappa Alpha, Tau Chapter. American Legion,
Post Commander, 1925. Kiwanis Club; President Hickory Club.
1930. German Reformed Church. Married Miss Annie Killian, June
18, 1924. Address: Hickory, N. C.
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DUDLEY WARREN BAGLEY
(First District — Counties: Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates,
Hertford, Pasquotank and Perquimans. Two Senators.)
Dudley Warren Bagley, Democrat, Senator from the First
Senatorial District was born at Moyock, April 18, 1889. Son of
Raleigh Old and Eva Berryman (Dudley) Bagley. Attended Trinity
Park School, Durham 1906-1908; Trinity College, 1909-1910; School
of Engineering, University Virginia, 1911-1912. Farmer. Received
certificate of Meritorious Service to Agriculture from North Caro-
lina State College, 1931. Trustee of University of North Carolina.
Member Currituck County Highway Commission, 1925-1929. Second
Lieutenant U. S. Army, Infantry and Machine Gun School, World
War. Kappa Alpha College Fraternity. Married Miss Ida Frost
Bray, September 10, 1917. Address: Moyock, N. C.
CARL LeROY BAILEY
(Second District — Beaufort, Dare, Hyde, Martin, Pamlico, Tyrrell
and Washington. Two Senators.)
Carl LeRoy Bailey, Democrat, Senator from the Second Senatorial
District, was born at Roper, October 30, 1898. Son of Benjamin F.
and Sarah F. (Williams) Bailey. Attended Roper Graded School
and Roper High School 1906-1916; Wake Forest College, 1916-1919,
receiving LL.B. degree June. 1919. Lawyer. Judge of Washington
County Recorder's Court 1919-24. Represented Washington County
in the House in 1925. Served in World War from October, 1918
to December, 1919. Mason. Warden and Master of lodge. Bap-
tist. Married Miss Vivian Putnam in 1922. Address: Roper, N. C.
J. ABNER BARKER
(Ninth District — Counties: Duplin, New Hanover, Pender and
Sampson. Two Senators.)
J. Abner Barker, Democrat, Senator from the Ninth Senatorial
District, was born in Robeson County, October 26, 1884. Son of
W. P. and Mary Atwood (Warwick) Barker. Completed Back
Swamp High School in 1900. Wake Forest College, B.A. 1905:
Wake Forest Law School 1907-1908. Lawyer. Member N. C. Bar
Association and Sampson County Bar Association. Vice Presideni.
Eagle Furniture and Carpet Co., Lumberton, 1907-1908: Vice Pres-
to
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ident, Coharie Bank of Roseboro, 1916-1918. Member Board of
Commissioners Roseboro, 1915-17; Chairman Board of Trustees
Roseboro Graded School, 1914-1922; Mayor of Roseboro, 1918; Judge
of Sampson County Recorder's Court, 1928-1932. Mason; Junior
Order; Knights of Pythias; Red Men; Ind. Order of Foresters.
Senior Warden and Past Master of Roseboro Lodge. Past Pres-
ident Roseboro Rotary Club. Baptist. Deacon since 1920; Super-
intendent of Sunday School since 1914. Married Miss Florence
Marie Butler, May 1, 1912. Member of Board of Trustees of Pine-
land Junior College for Women, Salemburg. Address: Roseboro,
N. C.
JOHN DAY BEATTY, Jr.
(Tenth District — Counties: Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus and
Cumberland. Two Senators.)
John Day Beatty, Jr., Democrat, Senator from the Tenth
Senatorial District, was born in Bladen County, February 7, 1892.
Son of Neil McLaurin and Elizabeth (Corbett) Beatty. Attended
Westminster Preparatory School, 1913-1914; White Oak High School.
1911-1912; University of North Carolina Law School. Lawyer.
Judge Recorder's Court of Bladen County, 1926-1930; County
Solicitor. Land Appraiser for U. S. Government, 1920, Camp Bragg
Territory. Volunteered in Army, Navy, Q. M. C, and was turned
down on account of physical disability. Member General Assembly,
1925. Member Atkinson Lodge No. 612 A. F. & A. M.; Jr. 0. U. A. M.
Presbyterian. Married Miss Beulah Lee Cooper, July 14, 1926. Ad-
dress: Elizabethtown, N. C.
JOSEPH OSCAR BELL
(Twenty-seventh District — Counties: Cleveland, Henderson, Mc-
Dowell, Polk and Rutherford. Two Senators.)
Joseph Oscar Bell, Democrat, Senator from the Twenty-seventL
Senatorial District, was born in Antreville, S. C, December 26, 1865.
Son of P. N. and P. Minerva Bell. Attended Union and Little River
Academies, 1877-1882; Perry's and Atkinson's Business College, Greeiv
ville, S. C, 1SS3-1S84. Retired from business. Member Board of
Education Henderson County, 1916-1920; County Road Board, 1920-
1924. Baptist. Deacon. Clerk First Baptist Church, Charlotte. 1888-
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1893; Tuxedo Baptist Church since 1907. Married Miss Lillie Dur-
ham, January 16, 1896. Address: Tuxedo, N. C.
JETER M. BLACKBURN
(Twenty-fourth District — Counties: Davie, Wilkes and Yadkin.
One Senator.)
Jeter M. Blackburn, Republican, Senator from the Twenty-fourth
Senatorial District, was born in Wilkesboro, November 12, 1904.
Son of E. M. and Myrtle (Edwards) Blackburn. Attended Georgia
Military Academy, 1922-1923; LL.B. Wake Forest, 1928. Lawyer.
City Attorney North Wilkesboro since 1930. Baptist. Married Miss
Edna McFee, August 2, 1931. Address: North Wilkesboro, N. C.
CLARENCE ERNEST BLACKSTOCK
(Thirty-first District — County: Buncombe. One Senator.)
Clarence Ernest Blackstock, Democrat, Senator from the Thirty-
first Senatorial District was born in Buncombe County, April 21,
1889. Son of Thomas Weaver and Cora Lee (Sams) Blackstock.
Attended Flat Creek School and Mars Hill College, Graduated
1909. Wake Forest College Law School; A.B. University of North
Carolina, 1915. Special course in Law, University Chicago. Lawyer.
Member Buncombe County Bar Association and the North Caro-
lina Bar Association. Member Buncombe County Board of Educa-
tion, 1920-1922. Commander Kiffin Rockwell Post American Legion;
Secretary Asheville Chapter R. C, 1922; O. T. C. Fort Oglethorpe
and Overseas, Eighty-first Division, First Lieutenant. Treasurer
Lions Club. Baptist. Married Miss May Carter, October 26, 1925.
Address: Asheville, N. C.
DAVID HENRY BLAND
(Eighth District — Counties: Johnston and Wayne. Two Senators.)
David Henry Bland, Democrat, Senator from the Eighth Senatorial
District, was born in Burgaw January 5, 1883. Son of J. T. and
Lorena (Williams) Bland. Attended Oak Ridge Institute 1899-
1900 and Wake Forest College 1904, B.A. and M.A. degrees; Wake
Forest Law School 1907-1908. Lawyer. Member of State Bar
Association. Judge of County Court of Wayne County from its
establishment in 1913 to January, 1933. Thirty-second degree Mason;
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Baptist. Married Miss Lizzie Moore of Greenville, April 24, 1912.
Address: Goldsboro, N. C.
WILLIAM KENDALL BOGGAN
(Nineteenth District — Counties: Anson, Stanly and Union. Two
Senators.)
William Kendall Boggan, Democrat, Senator from Nineteenth Dis-
trict, was born near Wadesboro, December 7, 1866. Son of John
A. and Melvina M. (Kendall) Boggan. Attended Anson Institute.
Sophomore University of North Carolina, leaving to go to work.
Deputy Clerk Superior Court. Secretary Hargrave & Leak Manu-
facturing Co., 1899-1909. Mayor Wadesboro, 1896-1898; 1909-1910.
Clerk Superior Court Anson County, 1910-1930. Mason. Master
Kilwinning Lodge No. 64, 1914-1923; Scottish Rite 32d degree;
Shrine, Oasis Temple, Charlotte; Junior Order United American
Mechanics; Consul Commander, Woodmen of the World, twenty
years; Worthy Patron, Order of the Eastern Star. Methodist.
Steward and lay leader. Teacher Men's Wesley Bible Class since
January, 1918. County Historian. Author of Colonial History of
Anson County and Life of Col. Thomas Wade. Married Miss Virginia
Little McMurray, December 18, 1901. Address: Wadesboro, N. C.
LAUGHLIN MeLAURIN BLUE
(Eighteenth District — Counties: Davidson, Montgomery, Rich-
mond and Scotland. Two Senators.)
Laughlin McLaurin Blue, Democrat, Senator from the Eighteenth
Senatorial District. Was born in Marlboro District, S. C, 1865.
Son of Angus and Mary Ann (McLaurin) Blue. Educated at
Laurinburg High School, 1878-1882; A.B. Davidson, 1886. Farmer.
Superintendent Schools Scotland County, 1904-1906. Member State
Board of Equalization, 1927-1931. Member Board of Directors,
State Hospital, Goldsboro since 1921. State Senator, 1917, 1921,
1925 and 1929. Member House of Representatives, 1893 (from
Richmond) 1915. Elder in Presbyterian Church. Married Miss
Mattie James Mason, 1892. Address: Gibson, N. C.
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WILLIAM ALEXANDER BROWN
(Ninth District — Counties: Duplin, New Hanover, Pender and
Sampson. Two Senators.)
William Alexander Brown, Democrat, Senator from the Ninth
Senatorial District, was born at Rocky Point, November 25, 1875.
Son of Bryan and Annie (James) Brown. Attended Public Schools
Pender County, 1881-1892; Davis Military Academy, 1893-1894;
Southern Business College, Atlanta, 1896. Farmer. County Com-
missioner, 1904-1906. Chairman County Board of Education, 1912-
1918. Chairman Local Draft Board during World War. Appointed
member Board of Agriculture by Governor Morrison and reappointed
by Governor Gardner. Presidential Elector, 1924. State Senator,
1921. Mason and Shriner. Married Miss George Ennett, December
23, 1896. Seven children, four boys and three girls. Address: Rocky
Point, N. C.
WILLIAM OLIN BURGIN .
{Eighteenth District — Counties: Davidson. Montgomery, Rich-
mond and Scotland. Two Senators.)
William Olin Burgin, Democrat, Senator from the Eighteenth
Senatorial District, was born at Marion, July 28, 1877. Son of
Merrett and Mary Elizabeth (Smith) Burgin. Attended Rutherford-
ton Military Institute, 1903-1904; University Law School, 1913.
Lawyer. Member North Carolina Bar Association. Mayor of Thomas-
ville, 1908-1909. Representative in General Assembly, 1931. Mason;
Junior Order United American Mechanics; Knights of Pythias.
Methodist — Steward. Married Miss Edith Leigh Greer, December
1912. Address: Thomasville, N. C.
WILLIAM GRIMES CLARK
(Fourth District — Counties: Edgecombe and Halifax. Two
Senators.)
William G. Clark, Democrat, Senator from the Fourth Senatorial
District. Was born in Tarboro, April 28, 1877. Son of William
S. and Lossie (Grist) Clark. Attended Horner's School, 1891-
1893; University of North Carolina, 1893-1897. Member D. K. E.
Fraternity. Fertilizer supply merchant and farmer. President
Tarboro Ginning Co.; Cotton Belt Land Co., Vice President Edge-
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combe Homestead Building and Loan; Director and member Finance
Committee, Tarboro Unit, North Carolina Bank and Trust Co.;
Director Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co., Greensboro; mem-
ber Board of Trustees, Edgecombe General Hospital; Chairman
of the Executive Committee Board of Directors of State Hospital,
Raleigh; member Board of Town Commissioners, Tarboro, 1901-
1907; Chairman Board of County Commissioners, 1914-1920. Dele-
gate to National Democratic Convention, Baltimore, 1912 and
Chicago, 1932. Member Board University Trustees. Director
Regional Agricultural Credit Loan Bank, Raleigh. State Senator,
1527, 1929 and 1931. Episcopalian. Married Miss Ruth Duval
Hardisty, April 17, 1901. Address: Tarboro, N. C.
HAYDEN CLEMENT
{Twenty-first District — County: Rowan. One Senator.)
Hayden Clement, Senator from the Twenty-first Senatorial Dis-
trict. Was born in Mocksville, September 25, 1879. Son of Louis
H. and Mary C. (Buehler) Clement. Attended Salisbury High
School; Horner's Military School; University of North Carolina,
1899-1903; University Law School, 1903. Lawyer. Member North
Carolina Bar Association. Delegate to National Democratic Con-
vention, Baltimore, 1912. Assistant Attorney General, 1907-1909;
Solicitor Fifteenth Judicial District, 1914-1923. Mason; Junior Order
United American Mechanics; Sigma Nu Fraternity. State Senator,
1931. Episcopalian; Junior Warden and Vestryman. Married Miss
Clay W. Croxton, Winchester, Ky., June 25, 1913. Address: Salis-
bury, N. C.
ARTHUR BENJAMIN COREY
(Fifth District— County: Pitt. One Senator.)
Arthur Benamin Corey, Democrat, Senator from the Fifth Sena-
torial District, was born at Winterville, Pitt County, December 10,
1891. Son of James Henry and Sudie D. (Tucker) Corey. Attended
Winterville High School, 1907-1910. University of North Carolina
1915-1917. Lawyer and Farmer. Member and Secretary Pitt County
Bar Association since 1924; member North Carolina Bar Association.
Corporal Battery "C" 113th Field Artillery, August 1, 1917-August 28,
1918. Personnel Sergeant Hq. Co. 113 F. A. August 28, 1918 to
April 3, 1919. Member Greenville Lodge 248 A. F. and A. M.; Tar
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River Lodge No. 93 Knights of Pythias; Commander, 1929;
Withlacoochie Tribe No. 35 Improved Order of Red Men; District-
Sachem, 1932. Methodist. Teacher, Carson Wesley Bible Class.
Post Adjutant Raleigh Post No. 1 American Legion, 1920; Post
Commander 1921; Vice Commander Department of North Carolina
American Legion, 1928; Post Commander Pitt County Post No. 39,
1929; Post Commander Veterans Foreign Wars, Post No. 2615, 1932.
Married Miss Hazel Norman Kennedy, April 7, 192S. Address:
Greenville, N. C.
THOMAS SCOTT CROSS
(Thirteenth District — Counties: Chatham, Lee and Wake. Two
Senators. )
Thomas Scott Cross, Senator from the Thirteenth Senatorial Dis-
trict, was born in Moore County, January 9, 1881. Son of Thomas
M. and Mamie (Scott) Cross. Attended schools in Sanford and
Broadway. Real Estate and Insurance. Ex-Member Rotary Club.
Mayor of Sanford, 1918. Captain Co. M, 3d, N. C. N. G. Mason,
Past Master. Methodist. Married Miss Pearle Holland, May 16,
1906. Address: Sanford, N. C.
JAMES CARLYLE DEMPSEY
(Sixth District — Counties: Franklin, Nash and Wilson. One
Senator. )
James Carlyle Dempsey, Democrat, Senator from the Sixth Sena-
torial District, was born at Lucama, Wilson County. Son of W. E.
and Molly (Darden) Dempsey. Attended Rock Ridge Agricultural
School, Wilson County; Atlantic Christian College, 1915-1916.
Tobacconist. Mexican Border service, Private, June, 1916, to May,
1917. In training Camp Greene, N. C, and Camp Sevier, S. C. ;
Corporal and Sergeant. Service in France, Sergeant, 1918, Second
Lieutenant, to October, 1918; First Lieutenant, 1918. North Carolina
National Guard, First Lieutenant, 1921-1922— Captain to 1928; Major
to present time. Methodist. Married Miss Ada. Bissette, October
29, 1919. Member American Legion and "40 and 8." Commander
Robert B. Anderson Post No. 13, 1925-1926. Address: Wilson, N. C.
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STOVER POE DUNAGAN
(Twenty-seventh District — Counties: Cleveland, Henderson. Mc-
Dowell, Polk and Rutherford. Two Senators.)
Stover Poe Dunagan, Democrat, Senator from the Twenty-seventh
Senatorial District, was born at Laurel, Mississippi, November 14,
1889. Son of T. J. and Julia (Havard) Dunagan. Lawyer. Private
340th Aero Squadron, 1918. Presbyterian. Married Miss Ruby Hicks,
November 11, 1924. Address: Rutherfordton, N. C.
CRAYON CORNELIUS EFIRD
(Nineteenth District — Counties: Anson. Stanly and Union. Two
Senators.)
Crayon Cornelius Efird, Democrat, Senator from the Nineteenth
Senatorial District, was born in Stanly County, September 28, 1904.
Son of Henry P. and Sallie M. (Braswell) Efird. Attended Albe-
marle High School; University of North Carolina two years. Mem-
ber firm H. P. Efird Co., Farm Implement business. Member N. C.
National Guard, 1926-1927. Mason; Stanly Lodge No. 34S, Carolina
Consistory, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry;
Oasis Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
Presbyterian. Address: Albemarle, N. C.
DAVID HENRY FULLER
(Eleventh District — County: Robeson. One Senator.)
David Henry Fuller, Democrat, Senator from the Eleventh Sena-
torial District, was born in Lumberton, March 28, 1891. Son of
C. M. and Dora (Coltrane) Fuller. Attended Trinity Park School,
Durham 1905-1907; A.B. Trinity College, 1912; Law School, 1913-
1915; Harvard Law School, 1915-1916. Lawyer. Member North
Carolina Bar Association. Judge Recorder's Court, 1920-1922. Cadet
First Officer's Training Camp, Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. Second
Lieutenant F. A. and later First Lieutenant, 316th F. A. Captain
Slst Division and Assistant Division Adjutant overseas. Member
Sigma Phi Epsilon, Theta Nu Epsilon and "The Tombs." Mason;
Maccabees. Methodist. Married Miss Wilma Cansler Durham, Sep-
tember 22, 1925. Address: Lumberton, N. C.
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W. R. FRANCIS
(Thirty-second, District — Counties: Haywood, Jackson and
Transylvania. One Senator.)
W. R. Francis, Democrat, Senator from the Thirty-second Sena-
torial District, was born in Waynesville, September 19, 1897. Son
of Josiah and Anna (Leatherwood) Francis. Attended Waynesville
High School; University of North Carolina, 1917-1922. Lawyer.
Member Twentieth Judicial District Bar Association and the Hay-
wood County Bar Association. Secretary, 1927; President, 1931.
Member Waynesville Chamber of Commerce. Judge Advocate,
American Legion, Department North Carolina, 1930-1931. Com-
mander Haywood Post No. 47 American Legion, 1929; Service officer.
U. S. Navy, Seaman First Class, June 1918 through March 1919.
Trustee Western Carolina Teachers College. Delegate to National
Democratic Convention, Houston, Texas, 1928. Solicitor County
Court, 1924-1926. Phi Alpha Delta Legal Fraternity and Theta Chi
Fraternity. Knights of Pythias; Junior Order United American
Mechanics. Baptist. Married Miss Elizabeth C. Reeves, November
1. 1922. Address: AVaynesville, N. C.
PAUL DAVIS GRADY
(Eighth District — Counties: Johnston and Wayne. Two Senators.)
Paul Davis Grady, Democrat, Senator from Eighth Senatorial Dis-
trict, was born at Seven Springs, Wayne County, September 5, 1890.
Son of Dr. James Calhoun and Ella (Smith) Grady. Educated at
Tennessee Military Institute; Wake Forest College; Washington
and Lee University. Received license to practice law at February
Term, 1911, Supreme Court of North Carolina. Special Attorney
for United States Department of Justice, 1914-16. Mayor Town of
Kenly, 1918. Deputy Collector Internal Revenue 1919-20. Repre-
sented Johnston County in House of Representatives sessions of
1919 and 1921. Represented Eighth Senatorial District in State
Senate, session 1923 and 1925. Married Miss Lelia G. Swink of
Lexington, Va. Chairman Board of Trustees Kenly High School.
Thirty-second degree Mason — Shriner. Odd Fellow. Woodman.
Junior 0. U. A. M. Address: Kenly. N. C.
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GEORGE LANDON GREENE
[Thirtieth District — Counties: Avery, Madison, Mitchell and
Yancey. One Senator.)
George Landon Greene, Republican, Senator from the Thirtieth
Senatorial District was born in Bakersville, August 2, 1904. Son
of Charles E. and Blanche (Pritchard) Greene. Attended Mitchell
Collegiate Institute, 1910-1920; Mars Hill College, 1920-1922; Yancey
Collegiate Institute, 1922-1924; Wake Forest College Law School,
1924-1926. Lawyer. Member Mitchell County Bar Association.
County Attorney for Mitchell County 1930-1932. Mason; Junior
Warden Bakersville Lodge No. 357. Junior Order United American
Mechanics. Baptist. Married Miss Mary Frye. Address: Bakers-
ville, N. C.
EDWARD FOSTER GRIFFIN
(Sixth District — Counties: Franklin, Nash and Wilson. Two
Senators.)
Edward Foster Griffin, Democrat, Senator from the Sixth Sena-
torial District, was born in Louisburg, November 4, 1900. Son of Paul
B. and Frances R. (Wilder) Griffin. Graduated from Louisburg High
School, 1919. University of North Carolina, 1920-1922, Pre-Med.;
Wake Forest College Law School, 1922-1923. Lawyer. Member
N. C. Bar Association. Prosecuting Attorney Franklin County
Recorder's Court 1926-1932. First Lieutenant N. C. National Guard,
113th F. A., 1925, Captain of Battery "B" since that date. Member
Louisburg Kiwanis Club — Director, 1931 and 1932; Mason, Senior
Warden in 1931-1932; Junior Order United American Mechanics.
Methodist, Steward. Married Miss Mildred Reid Scott, June 18, 1925.
One daughter, Nancy Carlyle, four years of age. Address: Louis-
burg, N. C.
LLOYD ELDON GRIFFIN
(First District — Counties: Camden, Currituck, Gates, Hertford,
Pasquotank and Perquimans. Two Senators.)
Lloyd Eldon Griffin, Democrat, Senator from the First Senatorial
District, was born at Belvidere January 14, 1893. Son of C. N. and
Mary (Perry) Griffin. Attended Belvidere Academy 1900-1908;
Edenton Graded Schools 190S-1910; B.A., Wake Forest College,
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1914; B.L., 1921; Harvard Law School 1916-1917; 1919-1920. Lawyer.
Member North Carolina Bar Association. Prosecuting Attorney,
Chowan County Recorder's Court, 1921-1928. World War, 322nd In-
fantry; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, 1917; First Lieutenant to
date of discharge. Member A. E. F. Pistol Team in France repre-
senting United States in Inter-Allied Matches. Ed Bond Post Ameri-
can Legion. Edenton Rotary Club. Baptist. Married Miss Belle
Walters, August 23, 1922. Address: Edenton, N. C.
ALLEN HATCHETT GWYN
{Seventeenth District — Counties: Guilford and Rockingham. Two
Senators.)
Allen Hatchett Gwyn, Democrat, Senator from the Seventeenth
Senatorial District. Was born near Yanceyville, November 12, 1893.
Son of Joseph P. and Sarah E. (Hatchett) Gwyn. Attended Yancey-
ville graded school; Trinity Park School, 1913-1914; A.B., Trinity
College, 1913; Trinity College, 1919-1921. Lawyer. Member North
Carolina Bar Association and the American Bar Association. En-
listed as a Private, September 19, 1917; commissioned Second Lieu-
tenant, Infantry, June, 1918; discharged January 24, 1919; commis-
sioned Captain, N. C. National Guard, 1923; now commanding Head-
quarters Co., 120th Infantry, N. C. National Guard. Mason. Method-
ist; Steward, 1926-1930. State Senator, 1931. Married Miss Janie
Johnston Gwyn, August 25, 1917. Address: Reidsville, N. C.
EDWARD MATTHEW HAIRFIELD
{Twenty-eighth District — Counties: Alexander, Burke and Cald-
well. One Senator.)
Edward Matthew Hairfield, Democrat, Senator from the Twenty-
eighth Senatorial District, was born in Axton, Henry County, Va.,
December 15, 1880. Son of James D, and Matilda E. (Hailey)
Hairfield. Attended Bethel Institute, Person County, 1S99-1900;
Scottsburg, Va. Normal College, B.S. 1902; LL.B. Wake Forest,
1906. Lawyer. Member Morganton and North Carolina Bar As-
sociation. County Attorney, 1918-1919; City Attorney, Morganton,
1922-1926. Superintendent Morganton Schools, 1910-1915; Mayor
Morganton, 1918. Chairman Burke County Exemption Board, 1918;
member Burke County Public Welfare Board. Mason; Secretary
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Lodge several years; held all offices except Master. Junior Order
United American Mechanics. President Kiwanis Club, 1932. Bap-
tist. Deacon sixteen years. Trustee, six years and Moderator
Catawba River Association ten years; Teacher Baraca Class twenty-
five years. Married Miss Elizabeth Mason Taylor of Chase City,
Va., September 24, 1907. Address: Morganton, N. C.
ROBERT MARCH HANES
(Twenty-second District— County: Forsyth. One Senator.)
Robert March Hanes, Democrat, Senator from the Twenty-second
Sentorial District, was born in Winston-Salem, N. C, September
22, 1890. Son of John W. and Anna (Hodgin) Hanes. Attended
Winston-Salem High School, 1901-1905; Woodberry Forest, 1905-1906;
A.B., University of North Carolina, 1912; graduate School of Business
Administration, Harvard University, 1913. Major, A. E. F., 1917-
1919. Banker. Methodist. Representative in the General Assembly
of 1929 and 1931. Married Miss Mildred Borden, 1917. Address:
Winston-Salem, N. C.
LUTHER THOMPSON HARTSELL, Jk.
{Twentieth District — Counties: Cabarrus and Mecklenburg. Two
Senators.)
Luther Thompson Hartsell, Jr., Democrat, Senator from the
Twentieth Senatorial District, was born in Concord, September 7,
1902. Son of Luther Thompson and Janie Witherspoon (Ervin)
Hartsell. Attended Concord High School, 1914-1918; A.B., LL.B.
University North Carolina, 1923. Lawyer. Member Cabarrus County,
North Carolina and American Bar Associations. County Attorney
since 1923. Chairman Catawba Board of Elections, 1926-1932.
Mason (Past Master); Royal Arch Mason (Past High Priest);
Royal and Select Masters (Past Illustrious Master); Knight Templar
(Past Commander); Shriner; Red Cross of Constantine; Allied
Masonic Degrees, U. S. A.; Fellow Grand College of Rites; Jr.
O. U. A. M.; Anointed Order of High Priesthood; Kappa Sigma; Phi
Delta Phi (Legal), Grand Royal Arch Captain, Grand Royal Arch
Chapter of N. C; Junior Grand Deacon, Allied Masonic Degree of
U. S. A. Presbyterian. Deacon since 1929. Student Editor N. C.
haw Review, 1922. Married Miss Mary Heath Jones, October 29,
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1924. Past Lieutenant Governor Kiwanis Club; Member Cabarrus
Country Club. Director Oxford Orphanage. Director General
Alumni Association U. N. C. 1928. Chairman Cabarrus County Unit
Institute of Government. Address: Concord, N. C.
JOHN SPRUNT HILL
{Sixteenth District — Counties: Alamance, Caldwell, Durham and
Orange. Two Senators.
John Sprunt Hill, Democrat, Senator from the Sixteenth Senatorial
District, was born in Faison, Duplin County, March 17, 1869. Son
of William E. and Frances Diana (Faison) Hill. Attended Faison
High School 1877-1882, and University of North Carolina, Ph.B.,
1889. University Law School 1891-1892. Law School Columbia Uni-
versity 1892-1894, Degree LL.B. Banker and Farmer. Member
N. C. Highway Commission 1921-1931; Member Board of Trustees
of University of North Carolina since 1904; Chairman of Building
Committee University 1922-1931 ; President Board of Trustees Watts
Hospital since 1921; President Durham Loan & Trust Co., 1904-
1932; President Home Savings Bank since 1921; Member American
Commission to Study Cooperative Banking and Cooperative Markets
in Foreign Countries 1913; Delegate to International Forestry Con-
vention at Paris 1912; Chairman War Savings Stamp Committee,
Durham County, 1917. Durham City Alderman 1908-1910. Member
Squadron A, New York Cavalry, New York National Guard, Foreign
Service Spanish-American War. Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity,
Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity, Alumni Member Phi Beta Kappa;
Odd Fellow, Elk, Mason; Life Member N. C. Historical Society.
Virginia Historical Society and American Historical Society. Presby-
terian; Member of Session since 1921. Author of: Needs of the
University, 1903; Cooperation and Work of American Commission
of 1913; Cooperative Plan to Provide 5 per cent Money for Farmers,
1914; Rural Credits, 1915; Organized Credit, the Paramount Need
of Tar Heel Farmers, 1915; Put Forestry on the Map and Make it
Pay to Grow Trees, 1920; Progressing Program for Building and
Maintaining a Great Primary System of State Highways in North
Carolina, 1920; North Carolina, A Story of Triumphant Democracy,
1924. Married Miss Annie Louise Watts, November 29, 1899. Ad-
dress: Durham, N. C.
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JOHN WETMORE HINSDALE
(Thirteenth District — Counties: Chatham, Lee and Wake. Two
Senators.)
John Wetmore Hinsdale, Democrat, Senator from the Thirteenth
Senatorial District. Was born in Raleigh, August 21, 1879. Son
of John Wetmore and Ellen (Devereux) Hinsdale. Attended pri-
vate schools; A.B., University of North Carolina, 1900; University
Law School. Lawyer. Representative in the General Assembly of
1909; State Senator, 1931. Address: Raleigh, N. C.
HENRY LEWIS INGRAM
(Twelfth District — Counties: Harnett, Hoke, Moore and Randolph.
Two Senators.)
Henry Lewis Ingram, Democrat, Senator from the Twelfth Sena-
torial District, was born at Farmer, N. C, April 10, 1896. Son of
John Thomas and Christina (Cranford) Ingram. Attended Farmer
and Asheboro High Schools; University of North Carolina 1915-
1917, A.B. Wholesale Distributor of Petroleum Products. Member
Travelers Protective Association; Rotary International; President
Asheboro Chamber of Commerce, 1931. Enlisted in Army, April
7, 1917; commissioned First Lieutenant Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., August
15, 1917; promoted to Captain in France, October 16, 191S; 321st
Inf. Reg., 81st Division and 64th Inf. Reg., 7th Division. Methodist.
Married Miss De Ette Bennett, June 14, 1922. Two boys aged 3
and 8 years. Address: Asheboro, N. C.
WILLIAM HENRY JOYNER
(Third District — Counties: Bertie and Northampton. One Senator).
William Henry Joyner, Democrat, Senator from the Third Sena-
torial District, was born in Enfield, September 16, 1867. Son of
Henry and Ann E. (Pope) Joyner. Attended Fetter's and Horner's
School, 1881-1882; Horner's Military Academy, 1883 and 1886. Farmer.
Methodist: Steward. Sheriff of Northampton County 1900-1906;
Mayor of Garysburg, 1912-1916. Married Miss Mary Annie Suiter,
September 11, 1901, thirteen children, all living. Address: Garys-
burg, N. C.
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THOMAS LeROY KIRKPATRICK
(Twentieth District — Counties: Cabarrus and Mecklenburg. Two
Senators.)
Thomas LeRoy Kirkpatrick, Senator from the Twentieth Sena-
torial District, was born in Mecklenburg County, May 3, 1877. Son
of James Watt and Martha Anne (Griffith) Kirkpatrick. Attended
Sharon Academy 1885-1894, Erskine College, Due West, S. C, 1894-
98, Law School University of North Carolina, 1899-1900. Lawyer.
Member Mecklenburg Bar Association, N. C. Bar Association, Ameri-
can Bar Association. Ex-President Charlotte Lions Club; Ex-
District Governor N. C. Lions; Ex-President Charlotte Chamber of
Commerce; National Councillor U. S. Chamber of Commerce; Ex-
Trustee Erskine College; President U. S. Good Roads Association;
Ex-President Bankhead National Highway Association; President
Mecklenburg County Bar Association; President Mecklenburg
County Democratic Club. Mayor of Charlotte 1916-1917; Chairman
of Charlotte Local Exemption Board, 1917-1918. Joined Queen City
Company N. C. Guards in 1894; Assistant Advocate General N. C.
National Guards 1905-1909, with rank of Lieutenant-Colonel; Judge
Advocate General 1913-1917, with rank of Colonel. Woodmen of
World; Royal Arcanum; Woodmen of America; Elk; Moose; Junior
Order. Past Dictator of Moose, Trustee of Elks, Past Council Com-
mander Woodmen. Associate Reformed Presbyterian, Superintend-
ent of Sunday School and Ruling Elder for 25 years. Married Miss
Eva Chalmers, October 9, 1907. Residence: Charlotte, N. C.
EDWARD MAYO LAND
(Twenty-fifth District — Counties: Catawba, Iredell and Lincoln.
Two Senators.)
Edward Mayo Land, Democrat, Senator from the Twenty-fifth
Senatorial District, was born in Edgecombe County, August 26,
1878. Son of Virginius W. and Mary D. (Mayo) Land. Attended
Bagley's High School, Littleton; A.B. University of North Carolina,
Cum Laude, 1899. Lawyer. Member North Carolina and American
Bar Associations. Chairman Executive Committee North Carolina
Bar Association, 1924-1926. Member Governor Craig's general staff.
Kappa Alpha (Southern) Gorgon's Head (College) Fraternities.
Presbyterian. Married Miss Marie Long, daughter of Judge B. F.
Long, October 7, 1913. Address: Statesville, N. C.
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THOMAS WILLIAMS MASON LONG
(Fourth District — Counties: Edgecombe and Halifax. Two
Senators.)
Thomas Williams Mason Long, Democrat, Senator from the Fourth
Senatorial District, was born in Northampton County, January 14,
1886. Son of Lemuel MacKinnie and Betty Gray (Mason) Long.
Attended Petersburg, Va., Academy, 1901-1902; V. P. I., 1902-1903;
University of North Carolina, 1903-1905; University College of Medi-
cine, 1905-1908; M.D., 1908. Physician. Member Halifax County
Medical Society and the North Carolina Medical Society. Chair-
man Board of Directors North Carolina Sanatorium, 1922-1931,
Roanoke Rapids Hospital, 1912-1931. Member State Board of Medi-
cal Examiners, 1921-1931; Director State Hospital, Raleigh, 1918-
1920. Mayor Roanoke Rapids, 1922-1930; Chairman City Bond
Commission, 1915-1922. Mason; Junior Order United American
Mechanics; Phi Chi Medical Society. Representative in the General
Assembly of 1931. Episcopalian. Married Miss Maria Greenough
Burgwyn, December 7, 1910. Address: Roanoke Rapids, N. C.
ANGUS DHU MacLEAN
(Second District — Counties: Beaufort. Dare. Hyde. Martin,
Pamlico, Tyrrell and Washington. Two Senators.)
Angus Dhu MacLean, Democrat, Senator from the Second Sena-
torial District, was born in Maxton, July 12, 1877. Son of John
Allen and Mary Virginia (Brown) MacLean. Educated in private
schools of Maxton and Laurinburg; attended University of North
Carolina 1894-1897; University Law School, 1898. Member North
Carolina and American Bar Associations. Representative in the
General Assembly of 1927, 1929 and 1931. Knights of Pythias; B. P.
O. E. Presbyterian. Married Miss Annetta Everett of Laurinburg,
October 24, 1900. Address: Washington, N. C.
RYAN McBRYDE
(Twelfth District — Counties: Harnett, Hoke, Moore and Randolph.
Two Senators.)
Ryan McBryde, Democrat, Senator from the Twelfth Senatorial
District, was born in Hoke County, December 22, 1886. Son of
Thomas and Mary (MeDuffie) McBryde. Attended Raeford Institute
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1900-1905; North Carolina Military Academy, 1906; two years David-
son College. Lumber dealer and farmer. Member Hoke County
Board of Education, 1918-1924. Mason. Presbyterian. Married Miss
Swannie Rattz, December 3, 1914. Address: Raeford, N. C.
DANIEL P. McDUFFEE
(Fourteenth District — Counties: Vance and Warren. One Senator.)
Daniel P. McDuffee, Democrat, Senator from Fourteenth Sena-
torial District, was born in Bladen County, October 3, 1890. Son of
D. G. and Maret (Cain) McDuffee. Attended Public Schools Bladen
County, White Oak Academy, 1907, 1909; Piedmont High School,
1911-1913; Wake Forest College, 1917. Lawyer. U. S. Army, In-
fantry, August 27, 1917, Discharged November 30, 1918, Lieutenant;
U. S. Reserve Corps, Lieutenant, November 30, 1918-November 30,
1923; Lieutenant North Carolina National Guard, 1922-1923. Mason;
Knights of Pythias; Junior Order United American Mechanics.
Presbyterian. Married Miss Florence Perry, July 16, 1923. One
child, D. P. McDuffee, Jr., born May 5, 1929. Address: Henderson,
N. C.
GEORGE McNEILL
(Tenth District — Counties: Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, and
Cumberland. Two Senators.)
George McNeill, Democrat, Senator from the Tenth Senatorial
District, was born at Fayetteville, April 3, 1882. Son of James D.
and Elizabeth (Strange) McNeill. Educated in Fayetteville Graded
Schools, 1892-1897; Fayetteville Military Academy, 1898-1899.
Manager McNeill Milling Company since 1903. Member National
Guard, 1901-1905, Colonel on Governor Craig's Staff, 1913-1917. Elk;
Woodman; Jr. O. U. A. M. Member State Board of Elections 1929-
1932. Representative in the General Assembly, 1919. Episcopalian.
Married Miss Mary McPherson, October 17, 1906. Address. Fayette-
ville, N. C.
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PETER THURMAN McNEILL
(Twenty-ninth District — Counties: Alleghany, Ashe and Watauga.
One Senator.)
Peter Thurman McNeill, Democrat, Senator from the Twenty-ninth
District, was born in Jefferson, 1896. Son of P. G. and Cynthia
Alice (McMillan) McNeill. Attended Jefferson High School; King
College, Bristol, Va.; Berea College, Berea, Kentucky. Farmer and
Stock raiser. Member Ashe County Commercial Club. Appointed
by Judge Webb of the Federal Court United States Commissioner,
February, 1925, for a period of six years. State Senator 1927,
and Member of House 1929. Primitive Baptist. Married Miss
Martha Ellen Fletcher, Somerset, Kentucky, September 22, 1918.
President Jefferson Democratic National Club; Campaign Manager
of Governor McLean for Ashe County. Address: West Jefferson,
N. C.
LARRY I. MOORE
(Seventh District — Counties: Carteret, Craven, Greene, Jones,
Lenoir and Onslow. Two Senators.)
Larry I. Moore, Democrat Senator from the Seventh Senatorial
District, was born in Wilson County, March 14, 1870. Son of Andrew
J. and Elizabeth (Farmer) Moore. Educated in Public Schools and
Whitaker's Academy; University North Carolina, 1893-1894. Lawyer.
Member North Carolina and American Bar Associations. Three
times elected Solicitor Third and Fifth Judicial Districts 1898-1907.
Mason; Scottish Rite thirty-second degree; Sudan Temple Shrine;
Elks; D. K. E. Fraternity. Baptist faith. Married Miss Ella King,
March 22, 1899. Address: New Bern, N. C.
JOSEPH WILLIAM NOELL
{Fifteenth District — Counties: Granville and Person. One
Senator. )
Joseph William Noell, Democrat, Senator from the Fifteenth Sena-
torial District. Son of Robert Alexander and Marian Amelia
(Harden) Noell. Born at Graham, N. C. Educated in private schools
and Graham College. Editor and Publisher of the Roxboro Courier.
Past President and charter member of Roxboro Rotary Club. Mar
ried Miss Nelia J. Holman, daughter of the late John B. Holman of
Iredell County. Address: Roxboro, N. C.
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ROBERT ANDREW PATTON
(Thirty-third District — Counties: Cherokee, Clay, Graham,
Macon and Swain. One Senator.)
Robert Andrew Patton, Democrat, Senator from the Thirty-third
Senatorial District, was born in Macon County, August 11, 1887.
Son of George R. and Sarah Anne (Phillips) Patton. Attended
Franklin High School; A and M. College, Raleigh, 1906-1907. Farmer
and Real Estate Dealer. Member State Democratic Executive Com-
mittee, 1928-1932. Mason. Methodist. Steward, Superintendent
Sunday School. Married Miss Mamie Dickey Slagle, November 27,
1912. Address: Franklin, N. C.
RUFUS GRADY RANKIN
(Twenty-sixth District — County: Gaston. One Senator.)
Rufus Grady Rankin, Democrat, Senator from the Twenty-sixth
Senatorial District, was born at Belmont, February 25, 1891. Son
of Rufus Pinkney and Zoe (Hand) Rankin. Graduated from
Gastonia High School, 1906; attended University of North Carolina,
1906-1909. Cotton Manufacturer. President Ridge Mills, Inc.;
Secretary and Treasurer Hanover Mills, Inc. Member Board of
Gaston County Commissioners, 1919-1925. Mason, including Blue
Lodge, Chapter, Commandery, Scottish Rite, Shrine; Improved Order
of Red Men; P. O. S. of A. State Senator 1931. Methodist; Steward.
Married Miss Ruth Boyce, January 23, 1913. Address: Gastonia,
N. C.
SAMUEL GILMER SPARGER
(Ticenty-third District — (Counties: Stokes and Surry. One
Senator. )
Samuel Gilmer Sparger, Democrat, Senator from the Twenty-third
Senatorial District, was born in Mount Airy, December 15, 1904.
Son of George W. and Jessie (Gilmer) Sparger. Educated in Mount
Airy Public Schools 1911-1919; Jamestown High School, 1920-1923;
Guilford College, 1923-1925; Duke University, 1925-1928. Lawyer.
Mason; Tau Kappa Alpha (Forensic Fraternity). Methodist. Mar-
ried Miss Helen Fulton, November 26, 1930. Address. Danbury,
N. C.
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EDWARD WHITE SUMMERSILL
{Seventh District — Counties: Carteret, Craven, Greene, Jones,
Lenoir and Onslow. Two Senators.)
Edward White Summersill, Democrat, Senator from the Seventh
Senatorial District, was born in Jacksonville, N. C, April 25, 1902.
Son of E. W. and Estelle (Mills) Summersill. Graduated Jackson-
ville High School. 1920; LL.B. Wake Forest, 1923. Lawyer. Mason.
Methodist. Address: Jacksonville, N. C.
DANIEL JOSHUA WALKER
(Sixteenth District — Counties: Alamance, Caswell, Durham and
Orange. Two Senators.)
Daniel Joshua Walker, Democrat, Senator from the Sixteenth
Senatorial District, was born in Alamance County, November 29,
1885. Son of Benjamin Franklin and Elizabeth Henry (Smith)
Walker. Attended Oak Ridge Institute, 1908-1909; A. B. University
of North Carolina 1913; University Law School, 1912-1915. Lawyer.
Clerk Superior Court, Alamance County, 1918-1926. Resigned to
become Judge General County Court, serving from 1926-1930. Kiwanis
Club, President, 1928. Junior Order United American Mechanics.
Presbyterian, Elder since 1922. Married Miss Annie Hurdle, Decem-
ber 30, 1914. Five Children. Address: Burlington, N. C.
CAPUS MILLER WAYNICK
{Seventh District — Counties: Guilford and Rockingham. Two
Senators.)
Capus Miller Waynick, Democrat, Senator from the Seventeenth
Senatorial District, was born in Rockingham County, December 23,
1889. Son of Joshua J. N. and Anna (Moore) Waynick. Attended
County Schools; graduated from Greensboro High School, 1907;
University of North Carolina, two years. Editor High Point Enter-
prise. Entered National Army as a volunteer, 191S; served in train-
ing camp; commissioned Second Lieutenant, after Armistice. Repre-
sentative in General Assembly, 1931. Presbyterian. Married Miss
Elizabeth McBee of Lincolnton, June 19, 1915. Address: High Point,
X. C.
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REPRESENTATIVES
REGINALD LEE HARRIS
SPEAKER
Reginald Lee Harris, Democrat, Representative from Person
County, was born in Roxboro, September 9, 1890. Son of William
H. and Rosa Lee (Jordan) Harris. Attended Virginia Military
Institute. Cotton manufacturer. Member House of Representa-
tives, 1927, 1929 and 1931. Member Educational Commission, 1929-
1931. Member Advisory Budget Commission 1931-1933. Roxboro
Rotary Club. Methodist. Kappa Alpha Fraternity. Married Miss
Katherine Long, December 10, 1913. Six children. Address: Rox-
boro, N. C.
CLAUDE WILLIAM ALLEN
Claude William Allen, Democrat, Representative from Granville
County, was born in that county, December 6, 1895. Son of Glan-
diers L. and Emma (Bragg) Allen. Attended Creedmoor High
School, 1910-1914. Farmer. President Granville County Board
of Agriculture. Private, Medical Department, 30th Division, March
23, 1918-January 10, 1919; overseas seven months, captured and
wounded. Junior Order United American Mechanics, Secretary,
1920-1925; Councilor, 1927. Representative in the General Assembly
of 1931. Member State Democratic Executive Committee. Baptist;
Chairman Board of Deacons, 1926-1933. Married Miss Mary Nor-
wood, October 4, 1924. Address: Creedmoor, N. C.
HERBERT L. ARNDT
Herbert L. Arndt, Democrat, Representative from Catawba
County, was born January 16, 1877. Son of John M. and M. M.
Arndt. Attended public schools and Lenoir-Rhyne College, Hickory.
Farmer and Merchant. Lutheran, Deacon and Secretary and
Treasurer of congregation for past 25 years. Bank Director; Trustee
of Lenoir-Rhyne College; Tax Assessor for past ten years. Mar-
ried Miss Dora Smith, August S, 1900. Address: Conover, N. C.
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CHARLES BRANTLEY AYCOCK
Charles Brantley Aycock, Democrat, Representative from Wake
County, was born in Goldsboro, August 12, 1907. Son of Charles
Brantley and Cora (Woodard) Aycock. Attended Randolph-Macon
Academy; University of North Carolina 1925-1927; Law School.
1927-1928; Wake Forest Law School, 1928-1929. Lawyer. First
Lieutenant, N. C. N. G., since June 2, 1930. Married Miss Alice
Brogden, April 17, 1932. Secretary to Constitutional Commission,
1931-1932. Address: Raleigh, N. C.
JAMES ROBERT AYCOCK
James Robert Aycock, Democrat, Representative from Wayne
County, was born in Wayne County, June 8, 1881. Son of Barnes
and Sallie (Hooks) Aycock. Attended Fremont school and Buie's
Creek Academy, 1901-1903. Farmer. Justice of the Peace 1910-
1912. With United States Engineers, 2d Battalion, Co. H. Junior
Order, Councilor and Trustee. Baptist. Address: Fremont, N. C.
GRAHAM ARTHUR BARDEN
Graham Arthur Barden, Democrat, Representative from Craven
County, was born in Sampson County, September 25, 1836. Son
of James Jefferson and Mary Robinson (James) Barden. Attended
Public Schools of Sampson County 1902-1908 and Burgaw Graded
School 1908-1915; LL.B. University North Carolina, 1920. Lawyer.
Judge Craven County Court, 1922-1928. U. S. Navy Second Class
Seaman, June 6, 1918, to January 7, 1919. Mason, Master Doric
Lodge No. 586 A. F. and A. M.; Shriner; Elks; Commander Donner-
son-Hawkins Post No. 24 American Legion; Forty and Eight So-
ciety; Sigma Chi; Phi Delta Phi. Presbyterian; Deacon since 1328;
Superintendent Sunday School, 1928-1930. Married Miss Agnes
Foy, December 22, 1922. Address: New Bern, N. C.
JAMES W. BEAN
James W. Bean, Democrat, Representative from Rowan County,
was born at Steeds, Montgomery County, December 7, 1893. Son
of Oliver D. and Talitha Ann (Carnelison) Bean. Attended Ether
Academy. General foreman Southern Railway Company Stores De-
partment. Secretary Rowan County Democratic Executive Com-
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mittee for past six years. Alderman and member Spencer School
Board. Baptist. Married Miss Annie J. Stutts. Address: Spencer.
N. C.
ROLAND F. BEASLEY
Roland F. Beasley, Democrat, Representative from Union County,
was born in Wilmington, January 26, 1871. Son of Rev. J. J. and
Antoinette (Montford) Beasley. Attended Public Schools and
Monroe High School; A. B. Wake Forest, 1S94. Journalist. State
Commissioner of Public Welfare, 1917-1921. Superintendent Union
County Schools, 1903-1907. State Senator, 1903; Member House of
Representatives, 1917. Baptist. Married Miss Ellie Stewart, 1895,
who died in 1907; married Mrs. Clyde Dowell Powell, 1922. Editor
Monroe Journal since 1894. Address: Monroe, N. C.
ROBERT PHILEMON BENDER
Robert Philemon Bender, Democrat, Representative from Jones
County, was born in Jones County, near Pollocksville. Son of
Bryan and Lucy H. (Tolson) Bender. Attended Pollocksville
High School, 1911-1914; University of North Carolina Law School,
1914-1915. Lawyer. Member Jones County Board of Education,
1920-1926; member Jones County Democratic Executive Committee,
1918-1930; City Attorney, town of Pollocksville, 1924-1930. Perma-
nent member Legal Advisory Board for Jones County during World
War. Chairman Jones County Young People's Democratic Clubs.
1928-1930. Woodmen of the World, Clerk of Camp No. 184, Pollocks-
ville, 1916-1930. Presbyterian; Deacon, 1915-1924; Elder since 1924;
President Jones County Sunday School Association, 1927-1930. Rep-
resentative in the General Assembly of 1929 and 1931. Married
Miss Mary McGee Edwards, September 19, 1918, who died February
20, 1932. Two sons, Robert P., Jr., 12, and James Virgil age ft.
Address: Pollocksville, N. C.
WILLIAM JAMES BERRYMAN
William James Berryman, Democrat, Representative from Chowan
County, was born in Chowan County, December 13, 1880. Son of
William James and Martha (White) Berryman. Attended ele-
mentary schools. Insurance Agent. Register of Deeds, Chowan
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County, 1906-1910; Member School Board eight years, chairman six
years; Member Road Commission 1921-1931, chairman four years.
Baptist; Deacon. Trustee Chowan College, also Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky. ; Sunday School teacTier
twenty-six years; Moderator Chowan Association eight years.
Married Miss Mary Williams, October 17, 1927. Address: Eden-
ton, N. C.
HUGH NELSON BINFORD
Hugh Nelson Binford, Democrat, Representative from Rocking-
ham County, was born at Cascade, Pittsylvania County, Virginia.
Son of Dr. Walter Lee and Nannie (Page) Binford. Taught at
home by mother and private teacher. Mayor of Madison, 1905.
Tobacconist and real estate dealer. Representative in the General
Assembly of 1931. President of Madison Building and Loan Asso-
ciation. Presbyterian; Elder. Married Miss Dora Cahill (now
deceased), November 24, 1888. Address: Madison, N. C.
FREDERICK WALTER BOSWELL
Frederick Walter Boswell, Democrat, Representative from Wilson
County, was born in that county. Son of Bunyan and Temperance
(Tomlinson) Boswell. Attended schools of Wilson County 1895 to
1900. Farmer. Taught in Wilson County Public Schools fourteen
years. Member of school board since 1909. Active in State and local
politics since the white supremacy campaign. Primitive Baptist.
Married Miss Martha Simms Boykin. Address: Wilson, N. C,
R. F. D. 2.
THOMAS C. BOWIE
Thomas C. Bowie, Democrat, Representative from Ashe County,
was born at Lake St. Joseph, La., in 1876. Son of John Ruth and
Frances (Calloway) Bowie. Received his preparatory education
at Moravian Falls Academy 1S91; Trap Hill High School 1892; and
Mars Hill College 1893. Received Ph. D. in 1899 from the University
of North Carolina. Did post-graduate work at Yale College in 1900
in Political and Social Science. Attended law schools of Yale and
University of North Carolina. Lawyer. Member of State and
American Bar Associations. Represented Ashe County in the
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Legislatures of 1909, 1913, 1915, 1921, 1923, 1925, and was Speaker
of the House in 1915. Mason. Odd Fellow. Episcopalian. Mar-
ried Miss Jean Davis in 1906. Address: West Jefferson, N. C.
BASIL M. BOYD
Basil M. Boyd, Democrat, Representative from Mecklenburg County,
was born in Mecklenburg County August 30, 1893. Son of Robert
Joe and Fannie (Smith) Boyd. Attended Mars Hill College, Wake
Forest College, B.A. and B.L., 1917. Lawyer. Member American
Legion, American Business Club. Assistant Judge Recorder's Court
City of Charlotte. First Lieutenant world war 1917-1918. Baptist.
Married Miss Irma Corinne Ran. Address: Charlotte, N. C.
CHARLES LEON BRADDY
Charles Leon Braddy, Democrat, Representative from Bladen
County, was born at Council, January 5, 1886. Son of Capt. K. J.
and Anna Jane (Stevens) Braddy. Attended Coharie High School,
Clarkton Military School and Nixon Commercial College, Austin,
Texas. Farmer and stock raiser. Mason. Representative in the
General Assembly of 1931. Presbyterian; Elder. Married Miss
Ruby Johnston. March 30, 1929. Address: Council, N. C.
SUMTER COE BRAWLEY
Sumter Coe Brawley, Democrat, Representative from Durham
County, was born in Mooresville, April 8, 1878. Son of Hiram A.
and Susan A. (Mayhew) Brawley. Educated in Mooresville High
School and Business College at Charlotte, 1900; studied law at
University of North Carolina, 1905. Lawyer. Member of North
Carolina Bar Association and former president Durham County
Bar Association. Member State Democratic Executive Committee.
1912-1932. Representative in the General Assemblies of 1913 and
1927. Senator from the Sixteenth Senatorial District, 1929. Ex-
alted Ruler Durham Lodge of Elks, 1924-1925, and representative
to Grand Lodge, 1925. Presbyterian. Married Miss Margaret
Burkett, October 6, 1907. Address: Durham, N. C.
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BURR COLEY BROCK
Burr Coley Brock, Republican, Representative from Davie County,
was born in Farmington, November 26, 1891. Son of Moses B. and
Vert (Coley) Brock. Attended schools of Cooleemee, Woodleaf,
Farmington and Clemmons High School, graduating in 1913; Uni-
versity of North Carolina, 1913-1917. Lawyer. Representative in
General Assembly of 1917. Mason; Junior Order United American
Mechanics; Odd Fellow; President Mocksville Lodge of P. O. S. of
A., also county and district president. Methodist; teacher Young
Men's class for six years. Married Miss Laura Tabor, December
23,. 1920. Address: Mocksville, N. C.
WILLIAM THOMAS BROWN
William Thomas Brown, Democrat, Representative from Perqui-
mans County, was born in Bertie County, November 1, 1878. Son
of William J. and Sarah E. (Lewis) Brown. Attended Windsor
Academy. Traveling salesman. Mason. Representative in the
General Assembly of 1931. Episcopalian. Married Miss Mary E.
Picard. November 15, 1916. Address: Hertford, N. C.
ANGUS BLUE CAMERON
Angus Blue Cameron, Democrat, Representative from Moore
County, was born in that county, October 22, 1872. Son of William
Pitt and Catherine Emeline (Blue) Cameron. Attended Public
Schools Moore County, 1875-1893; private school, 1S94; Carthage
Academy, 1894-1895; Mercer University, Macon, Ga., 1895-1896;
Massey's Business College, Richmond, Va., 1901; Special Courses at
State College and University of North Carolina. Teacher. Seventh
Degree Member of National Grange; County Superintendent of
Schools, 1919-1929; now engaged in farming and insurance work;
County Supervisor of Taxation, 1931. Past Master Carthage Lodge
No. 181, A. F. & A. M. Carthage Council, Jr. O. U. A. M., Past
Councilor. Presbyterian; Ruling Elder since 1920. Married Miss
Belinda Wilkinson Barnes, January 2, 1906. Address: Carthage
N. C.
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ROBERT GREGG CHERRY
Robert Gregg Cherry, Democrat, Representative from Gaston
County, was born in York County, S. C, October 17, 1891. Son of
Chancellor LaFayette and Hattie E. (Davis) Cherry. Attended
Gastonia graded schools, 1900-1908; A.B., Duke University, 1912;
Duke University Law School, 1913-1914. Lawyer. Member Gaston
County Bar Association, North Carolina Bar Association, Ameri-
can Bar Association and Kiwanis Club. Mayor of Gastonia, 1919-
1921. Captain Co. "A", Machine Gun Battalion, 30th Division.
April 26, 1917, to April 15, 1919; Major, 120th N. C. National
Guard, 1920-1921. Member Gastonia Lodge No. 369, Ancient Free
and Accepted Masons; Knights Templar; Royal Arch Masons;
Oasis Temple, A. ( A. O. N. M. S. Shrine; Knights of Pythias,
Knights of Khorassan; Improved Order of Red Men; Jr. 0. U.
A. M.; I. O. O. F. ; Sons Confederate Veterans; American Legion,
State Commander, 1928-1929. Representative in the General As-
sembly of 1931. Methodist. Married Miss Mildred Stafford, 1921.
Address: Gastonia, N. C.
FINLEY HEZEKIAH COFFEY
Finley Hezekiah Coffey, Democrat, Representative from Caldwell
County was born in that county April 20, 1861. Son of Drury and
Harriet (Collette) Coffey. Attended County schools 1S67-1877;
Boone Academy, 1879-18S0. Furniture Manufacturer. President
Kent-Coffey Mfg. Co., President and director the Union Mirror Co.;
President Union National Bank; President Southern Furniture Man-
ufacturers Association. President Chamber of Commerce, past
nine years; Councillor National Chamber of Commerce, six
years; member Reconstruction Finance Board, Charlotte. Member
Board of Aldermen, Lenoir, 1909-1916; Chairman Board of Com-
missioners, Caldwell County, 1916-1924; 1926-1928; Member County
Government Commission appointed by Governor McLean; Member
State Prison Board; Member Board of Trustees State College,
eight years; Member Board of Trustees University of North Caro-
lina. Chairman Draft Board Caldwell County, during World War.
Knights of Pythias. Presbyterian. Married Miss Rose Freeze,
October 6, 1892. Address: Lenoir, N. C.
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GILES WILLIAM COVER, JR.
Giles William Cover, Jr., Democrat, Representative from Cherokee
County, was born at Andrews, October 10, 1909. Son of Giles
William and Lillian Mayfield (Brittain) Cover. Attended Bingham
Military School, 1925-1928. Leather Manufacturer. Secretary-
Treasurer Andrews Rotary Club. Elected Member Board of Alder-
men May 5, 1931. Three years in R. O. T. C. at Bingham Military
School; Lieutenant. Address: Andrews, N. C.
CHARLES H. COWLES
Charles H. Cowles, Republican, Representative from Wilkes
County, was born in Charlotte, July 16, 1875. Son of Calvin J.
and Ida Augusta (Holden) Cowles. Attended Graded Schools
of Charlotte and private school in Wilkesboro and Wilkesboro pub-
lic schools and academy; Charlotte Commercial College. Real
Estate Dealer. Established and published The Wilkes Patriot,
1906-1919. Member Board of Commissioners Wilkesboro. Repre-
sentative in the Sixty-first Congress, 1909-1911; Member State House
of Representatives, 1905; 1907; 1921; 1923 and 1929. Knights of
Pythias— not active. Episcopalian. Married Miss Louise Lunn,
September 6, 1916. Delegate to Republican National Conventions
at Chicago, 1904, 1908, 1912, and 1916. Address: Wilkesboro, N. C.
ROBERT MARTIN COX
Robert Martin Cox, Democrat, Representative from Forsyth
County, was born in that county, July 9, 1876. Son of Romulus
L. and Susan E. (Barrow) Cox. Farmer. Representative in the
General Assembly, 1907, 1917, 1919, 1921, 1923, 1925, 1927, 1929
and 1931. Methodist Protestant. Married, 1917, Miss Lillian Miller.
Two children. Address: Winston-Salem, N. C.
NATHANIEL SULLIVAN CREWS
Nathaniel Sullivan Crews, Democrat, Representative from Forsyth
County, was born in Walkertown, November 25, 1902. Son of
Thomas Albert and Mary Frances (Paschal) Crews. Attended
Walkertown High School, 1917; State College, 1917; Trinity Col-
lege, 1918-1920; Graduated Duke University Law School, 1927.
Lawyer. Member and Secretary Forsyth County Bar Association;
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Member Winston-Salem Junior Bar Association. R. 0. T. C. State
College, 1917; Trinity College, 1919. Sigma Phi Epsilon; President
Duke Chapter, Sigma Nu Phi. Methodist. Married Miss Julia
Cobb Lyons, August 8, 1931. Address: Winston-Salem, N. C.
WILLIAM THOMAS CULPEPPER
William Thomas Culpepper, Democrat, Representative from Pas-
quotank County, was born in Elizabeth City, June 19, 1884. Son
of LeRoy and Martha (Davis) Culpepper. Attended Atlantic Col-
legiate Institute. Hardware Merchant. President Culpepper Hard-
ware Co., Inc., Culpepper Motor Co., Inc. and the Carolina Amuse-
ment Company, Inc. Member Merchants Association; Chamber of
Commerce; Kiwanis Club. Member Elizabeth City Board of Alder-
men, 1914-1916. Mason; Sudan Shrine; Junior Order United
American Mechanics; President Elizabeth City Shrine Club; B. P.
0. E., Exalted Ruler, 1917. Baptist. Married Miss Alice G. Butler,
October 19, 1909. Address: Elizabeth City, N. C.
GEORGE E. DAVIS
George E. Davis, Democrat, Representative from Hyde County,
was born in Engelhard in 1870. Son of Thomas M. and Eliza J.
(Sanderson) Davis. Attended private and) public schools, 1879-
1888. Farmer. Sheriff of Hyde County, 1912-1917. Representative
in the General Assembly in 1923, 1925, 1929 and 1931. Methodist.
Married Miss Orpha Credle, January 6, 1904. Address: Lake Land-
ing, N. C.
JULIUS GLADSTONE DEES
Julius Gladstone Dees, Democrat, Representative from Pamlico
County, was born at Grantsboro, May 23, 1893. Son of George and
Julia Frances (Brinson) Dees. Attended Alliance High School;
Whitsett Institute, 1910-1911; University North Carolina, 1912-1915.
Lawyer. Member North Carolina Bar Association. County Attor-
ney Pamlico County, 1931; Solicitor Recorder's Court, 1931. U. S.
Navy, Yeoman, 1918-1921. Commander Dixon-Cahoon Post No. 200
American Legion, 1931-1932. Married Miss Vivian Ola Sawyer,
May 19, 1920. Five children, two girls and three boys. Address:
Bayboro, N. C.
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RUFUS A. DOUGHTON
Rufus A. Doughton, Democrat, Representative from Alleghany
County, was born at Laurel Springs, January 10, 1857. Son of J.
Horton and Rebecca (Jones) Doughton. Educated at Independence,
Va., High School, 1876-1877; University North Carolina, graduated
in Law, 1880. Lawyer, farmer and banker. Member of the North
Carolina House of Representatives, 1887, 1889, 1891, 1903, 1907, 1909,
1911, 1913, 1915, 1917, 1919, 1921; 1923; Speaker, 1891; Lieutenant
Governor, 1893-1897; Commissioner of Revenue, 1923-1929; Dis-
trict Highway Commissioner, 1921-1923; State Highway Commis-
sioner, 1929-1931; Mason. Methodist. Married Miss Sue B. Parks,
January 3, 1883.
SAMUEL ERNEST DOUGLASS
Samuel Ernest Douglass, Democrat, Representative from Wake
County, was born in Troy, January 10, 1884. Son of William C. and
Josie (Tyson) Douglass. Attended Raleigh Public Schools and
Morson Academy; Atlanta Dental College and University of Mary-
land; Hamilton College of Law; Morden's School of Real Estate
and Insurance. Realtor and Farmer. Member Raleigh Real Estate
Board; North Carolina Realtors Association; National Real Estate
Association; Wake County Bar Association. North Carolina Na-
tional Guard, 1900. Methodist. Married Miss Ruth Ingram, July
21, 1911. Inventor Douglass Spark Arrester for Locomotives,
Douglass Rotary tooth brush and movable head lights for auto-
mobiles. Address: Raleigh, N. C, R. 1.
JOHN A. DOWTIN
John A. Dowtin, Democrat, Representative from Warren County,
was born in same county 1861. Son of W. A. and Mary (Watson)
Dowtin. Attended public schools. Farmer. Register of Deeds 1900-
1922. Representative in the General Assembly, 1925. Married.
Address: Warrenton, N. C.
WILLIAM WOOTEN EAGLES
William Wooten Eagles, Democrat Representative from Edge-
combe County, was born June 19, 1881. Son of Benjamin Franklin
and Sidney Elizabeth Eagles. Attended Edgecombe High School;
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University of North Carolina, A. B. 1904. Farmer and Banker.
Grade A farmer 1931. County Commissioner, 1914. Mason; Wood-
men of the World; Worshipful Master Masonic Lodge 1918. Bap-
tist; Deacon since 1920. Married Miss Daisy McLean October IT.
1918. Address: Macclesfield, N. C.
THOMAS RICHARD EATON
Thomas Richard Eaton, Republican, Representative from Yadkin
County, was born near Yadkinville, December 26, 1886. Son of
E. J. and Nancy (Davis) Eaton. Attended Public Schools, 1893-
1903; Yadkinville Normal School, 1904-1905. Cashier Bank of
Yadkinville; Mercantile and Milling Business. Register of Deeds.
Yadkin County, 1920-1930. Junior Order United American Me-
chanics, Secretary Yadkinville Council, 1918-1928. Baptist. Mar-
ried Miss Florence Dobbins, November 20, 1915. Address: Yad-
kinville. N. C.
JOHN RAWLINGS EDWARDS
John Rawlings Edwards, Democrat, Representative from Pitt
County, was born in Hertford, October 10, 1896. Son of W. F. C.
and Pattie Valentine (Rawlings) Edwards. Attended Hertford
High School. University of North Carolina Law School, 1916-1917;
Summer Law School, 1925. Lawyer. Secretary to Congressman
Hallett S. Ward, 1921-1925. Sergeant, F. A. R. D. Headquarters
Battery, 1918. Embarked for overseas duty at Camp Hill, Va.,
November 11, 1918; ship was ordered not to sail. Member Pitt
County Post No. 39, American Legion. Episcopalian. Married Miss
Camilla McMullan, June 20, 1923, who died August 14, 1924; one
daughter, Pat; married Miss Mary Shepard Parker, of Norfolk.
Virginia, October 7, 1931. Address: Greenville, N. C.
NEREUS CLARKSON ENGLISH
Democrat, Representative from Randolph County, was born at
Trinity, April 20, 1904. Son of Nereus Clarkson and Virginia Mae
(Bouldin) English. Attended Trinity Public and High School,
graduated 1921; A. B. Guilford College, 1926. Farmer; textile
manufacturer. Secretary-Treasurer Carolina Underwear Co.; Presi-
dent Textile Distributors. Vice-President Thomasville Rotary
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Club. Formerly Principal Spring Hope High School. Friend.
Teacher. Married Miss Mae Martin, August 2, 1930. Address:
Trinity, N. C.
ROBERT BRUCE ETHERIDGE
Robert Bruce Etheridge, Democrat, Representative from Dare
County, was born at Manteo, July 31, 1878. Son of Van Buren
and Matilda Etheridge. Attended public schools of Manteo and
Atlantic Collegiate Institute, Elizabeth City; A.B.. Trinity Col-
lege (now Duke University), 1899. Cashier Bank of Manteo. Gen-
eral Insurance. Clerk Superior Court, Dare County; Superintend-
ent of Schools; member State Executive Committee, 1928; Postmas-
ter, Manteo, 1914-1922; County Chairman Democratic Executive
Committee. State Senator from Second District, 1907; Represen-
tative in General Assembly, 1929 and 1931. Mason, Treasurer Ma-
sonic Lodge about seven years; Junior Order; Woodmen of Amer-
ica; Kappa Sigma (college fraternity). Married Miss Elizabeth
Webb, April 22, 1908. Address: Manteo, N. C.
REUBEN OSCAR EVERETT
Reuben Oscar Everett, Democrat, Representative from Durham
County, was born at Hamilton, Martin County, October 20, 1879.
Son of Justus and Elizabeth (Purvis) Everett. Attended Hamilton
Schools, Vine Hill Male Academy, Scotland Neck; B.S. University
of North Carolina, 1903; Trinity College Law School, 1905; Colum-
bia University, Summers 1912, 1913 and 1914. Lawyer. Member
Durham County, North Carolina and American Bar Associations.
Life Member American Law Institute. President North Carolina
Agricultural Society, 1917; President Cotton States Commission.
1921-1923; Represented North Carolina World's Cotton Congress.
England, 1921; Secretary International Cotton Institute; Member
Executive Committee North Carolina Bar Association, 1931-34;
Board of Trustees University North Carolina, 1921-1932; President
Durham-Orange Historical Society; Bennett Place Memorial Com-
mission. Attorney of City of Durham; Prosecuting Attorney, Dur-
ham County; Assistant County Recorder. Representative in Gen-
eral Assembly of 1921, 1923, 1925 and 1927. Delegate to the Na-
tional Democratic Convention, 1920 and 1928. Knights of Pythias;
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Woodmen of the World; Woodmen of America. Episcopalian. Au-
thor of "Bryan, a Statesman of the Christian Era;" "The World
Court," 1928; "The Constitution and the Social Order", 1932; in col-
laboration with Bruce Craven wrote, "Treatise on the Federal In-
come Tax." Married Miss Katherine McDiarmid Robinson, of
Fayetteville, June 24, 1926; one son, Robinson Oscar Everett, born
March 18, 1928. Address: Durham, N. C.
WALL CHRISTIAN EWING
Wall Christian Ewing, Democrat, Representative from Cum-
berland County, was born at Mount Gilead, N. C, April 3, 1891. Son
of Dr. Joseph Preston and Sallie Hearne (Christian) Ewing. At-
tended Donaldson Military School, Fayetteville, N. C, 1907; The
Citadel (South Carolina Military Academy), 1910. Farmer; manu-
facturer of fertilizers. Member Cumberland County Democratic
Executive Committee, 1916-1922; Chairman Cumberland County
Board of Elections, 1922-1928; member State Democratic Executive
Committee since 1924; Member State Board of Conservation and
Development, Mason; Elk. Presbyterian. Representative in the
General Assembly, 1929 and 1931. Married Miss Douglas Souther-
land, May 14, 1920. Address: Fayetteville, N. C.
OSCAR S. FALKNER
Oscar S. Falkner, Democrat, Representative from Vance County,
was born in Vance County. Son of Rufus N. and Margaret (Rudd)
Falkner. Attended public schools of Vance County. Farmer and
Tobacco Warehouseman. Member Farmers Grange; officer in Aycock
Unit Vance County. Deputy Sheriff Vance County, 1892-1896; Chief
of Police of Henderson, 1891 and 1916. Member Home Guards 1898.
Presbyterian. Married Miss Ruth C. Clements, 1891. Address: Hen-
derson, N. C.
EDWARD GASKILL FLANAGAN
Edward Gaskill Flanagan, Democrat, Representative from Pitt
County, was born in Greenville, North Carolina December 3, 1875.
Son of John and Mary Wise Gaskill Flanagan. Attended Greenville
High School. President of Greenville Banking & Trust Company
since 1908; President Carolina Kelvinator Company of GreenvilTe,
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X. C; President of the Armistead Motor Company of Rocky Mount.
N. C; President of the Pitt Development Co., Inc.; President of the
Land Investment Co., Inc., of Greenville, N. C; Chairman of the
Board of Northside Lumber Co., Inc. of Greenville, N. C. ; Director
Wachovia Bank & Trust Co., Occidental Life Insurance Co., Golds-
boro Motor Company; Member of the Advisory Board of the Recon-
struction Finance Corporation, Charlotte, N. C; Member of the
Board East Carolina Teachers College and Chairman of the Building
Committee since 1927; Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees
Greenville Graded School; Chairman Finance Committee since
1912; owner John Flanagan Buggy Company, business established
1S66. Delegate from First District to the Democratic National Con-
vention at Houston, Tex., 1928 and Chicago, 1932. Knights of
Pythias; Odd Fellows; Red Men; Representative in the General
Assembly from Pitt County 1927-29-31. Baptist. Married Miss
Rosa M. Hooker, October 18, 1899. Address: Greenville, North
Carolina.
PINCKNEY CARROLL FRONEBERGER
Pinckney Carroll Froneberger, Democrat, Representative from
Gaston County, was born in Bessemer City, May 28, 1901. Son of
H. C. and Sally (Carroll) Froneberger. Attended Bessemer City
Primary and Graded Schools 1906-1917; University of North Caro-
line, 1919-1924. Lawyer. Member North Carolina and Gaston
County Bar Associations. Secretary Gaston County Democratic
Executive Committee, 1924-1926; Chairman Gaston County Board
of Elections, 1926-1932. Two years R. O. T. C, 1920-1922. Knights
of Pythias; Grand Master Bessemer City Lodge, 1927; Phi Alpha
Delta, Law Fraternity. Lutheran. Married Miss Geneva Thorn-
burg, August 8, 1929. Address: Gastonia, N. C.
MILES WALLACE GALLOWAY
Miles Wallace Galloway, Democrat, Representative from Tran-
sylvania County, was born at Balsam Grove, July 28, 1879. Son of
Willis Perry and Sarah Louise (Kitchin) Galloway. Received
education in private schools. Farmer. Register of Deeds, Tran-
sylvania County, 1904-1908; Deputy Insurance Commissioner and
State Fire Warden, 1923-1925; County Tax Supervisor Transylvania
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County, 1926-1927. Civil Service employee, Post Office Department,
Division Railway Mails, 1914-1923. Baptist. Married Miss Arie C
LaMance, January 12, 1898. Address: Brevard, N. C.
JOE GARIBALDI
Joe Garibaldi, Democrat, Representative from Mecklenburg
County, was born in Charlotte, July 15, 1865. Son of John and
Louisa Garibaldi. Attended Charlotte High School and Capt. Bar-
rier's Military School. Jeweler (retired). Member Chamber of
Commerce; Rotary Club; Director Charlotte National Bank; mem-
ber Governing Board St. Peter's Hospital; President Governing
Board Salvation Army; City Commissioner, Charlotte, eight years;
member State Guard and Hornet's Nest Riflemen ten years. Knights
of Pythias. Representative in the General Assembly of 1931.
Episcopalian. Married Miss Edna Dunklin. Address: Charlotte,
N. C.
ERNEST ALVAH GARDNER
Ernest Alvah Gardner, Democrat, Representative from Cleveland
County, was born at Shelby, December 23, 1897. Son of Virgil A.
and Florence (Nolan) Gardner. Attended Fallston High School,
1915-1918; Boiling Springs High School, 1918-1919. LL.B. Wake
Forest College, 1923. Lawyer. Baptist. Married Miss Vera Rich-
ardson, May 19, 1926. Address: Shelby, N. C.
FRANCIS GARROU
Francis Garrou, Democrat, Representative from Burke County,
was born in Praly, Italy. Son of John and Marianne (Massel)
Garrou. Attended Pomaret Latin School, 1891-1893, at Pomaret,
Praly, Italy. Manufacturer. Executive Valdese Manufacturing Com-
pany; President Garrou Knitting Mills, Morganton, and of the
Waldensian Hosiery Mills; Vice President Full Fashioned Mills;
Director First National Bank of Morganton. Member Valdese Cham-
ber of Commerce; Cotton Textile Institute, New York and North
Carolina Cotton Manufacturers' Association. Member Burke County
Financial Advisory Board, 192S-1929; First Chairman Lovelady
School District, serving until 192TJ; Ctyiirman Lovelady Road
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Commission, 1914-1922. Mason; Catawba Valley Lodge, No. 217;
Catawba Chapter No. 60, Royal Arch Masons; Hickory Commandery
No. 17, Knights Templar; Oasis Temple, Charlotte. Presbyterian.
Set up the first Hosiery Mills in Burke County at Valdese, built
the first stone building housing same. First mayor Valdese and
Alderman three terms. Married Miss Catherine Christmas, October
18, 1899. Address: Valdese, N. C.
GLADSTONE DAUGHTRY CATLING
Gladstone Daughtry Gatling, Democrat, Representative from Gates
County, was born in Gates, April 27, 1880. Son of Riddick and
Penina (Willey) Gatling. Attended private schools, 1887-1892;
Reynoldson Academy, 1894-1896. Farmer. Member Board of Educa-
tion and Tax Supervisor, Gates County. Representative in the
General Assembly, 1913 and 1915. Mason, Worshipful Master, 1910-
1918. Representative in the General Assembly of 1931. Episcopalian;
Senior Warden. Married Miss Lillian Baxter Harrill, October 7,
1914. Four children. Member Four-Minute Men during World War.
Address: Gates, N. C.
SAMUEL MALLET GATTIS, Jr.
Samuel Mallet Gattis, Jr., Democrat, Representative from Orange
County, was born in Hillsboro, August 22, 1891. Son of Samuel
Mallet and Margaret (Parish) Gattis. Attended Warrenton High
School, 1907-1908; University of North Carolina, A.B., 1912; Uni-
versity Law School, 1913-1914. Lawyer. Member North Carolina
Bar Association; Hillsboro Chamber of Commerce. Lieutenant U. S.
Army, April, 1917, to October, 1919. Mason; Master Hillsboro Lodge,
1928. Methodist. Representative in the General Assembly of 1931.
Married Miss Virginia Parris, January 7, 1921. Address: Hills-
boro, N. C.
JOHN WALLACE GILLIAM, Jr.
John Wallace Gilliam, Jr., Democrat, Representative from Ala-
mance County, was born at Altamahaw, December 16, 1886. Son of
John Wesley and Mary Jane (Leath) Gilliam. Educated in Gilliam
Academy, established by father in 1879. Attended Smithdeal Busi-
ness College. Richmond, 1905; Eastman Business College, Pough-
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keepsie, 1906; Wilbur R. Smith Business College, Lexington, Ky.
Farmer; Minister; Trade man for Smith-Pinnix Tobacco Ware-
house, Reidsville. Business Manager Gilliam's Academy, 1905-1918;
Instructor in Commercial Course, thirteen years. President Altama-
haw-Ossipee High School Parent-Teacher's Association, 1932.
Primitive Baptist. Pastor three churches; ordained Elder, 1915;
Clerk Upper Country Line Primitive Baptist Association since, 1916.
Married Miss Mary Blanche Idol, April 24, 1914. Address: Altama-
haw, N. C, R. 1.
CHARLES GILBERT GRADY
Charles Gilbert Grady, Democrat, Representative from Johnston
County, was born at Four Oaks, December 25, 1905. Son of Charles
Hampton and Lelia (Baker) Grady. Attended Four Oaks High
School, 1920-1923; Smithfield High School, 1922-1923. A.B. Uni-
versity North Carolina, 1927. University Law School, 1927-1929.
Lawyer. Member Johnston County Bar Association, Secretary-
Treasurer, 1931-1932. Member Board of Commissioners Four Oaks,
1932. N. C. National Guard, 1922-1924; Councilor Four Oaks Coun-
cil No. 337, 1932; Junior Order United American Mechanics; Alpha
Lambda Tau National Social Fraternity. Baptist. Teacher Men's
Bible Class, 1929-1932. Married Miss Lavinia Ann Green June 18,
1931. Address: Four Oaks, N. C.
CHARLES HARRIS GRAEBER
Charles Harris Graeber, Democrat, Representative from Cabarrus
County, was born in Rowan County, August 8, 1878. Son of Henry
T. and Margaret C. (Moose) Graeber. Attended Rowan County
Schools; Mt. Pleasant College. Ice and Fuel Dealer. County Com-
missioner, Cabarrus County, 1926-1929. Patriotic Sons of America.
Lutheran; Deacon and Elder for a number of years. Married Miss
Jennie M. Alexander, 1908. Address: Kannapolis, N. C.
ERNEST GRAHAM
Ernest Graham, Democrat, Representative from Robeson County,
was born in Red Springs, February 5, 1891. Son of Daniel McN.
and Maggie (McGirt) Graham. Attended Red Springs schools; David-
son College, two years; graduated Oak Ridge Institute. Merchant
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and Farmer. Mayor Red Springs, 1921-1922; Chairman Red Springs
School Board, 1921-1930; member Board of Trustees Flora Mac-
donald College, 1925-1930; Director Bank, 1924-1927; Manager Gra-
ham Company, 1919-1930; President Red Springs Rotary Club, 1930.
Mason; Scottfsh Rite; Shriner; Knights of Pythias. Private, World
War, 1918. Presbyterian; Elder, 1922-1930. Representative in the
General Assembly of 1931. Married Miss Carrie Belle McNeill,
April 10, 1918. Four children. Address: Red Springs, N. C.
LEMUEL CLAYTON GRANT
Lemuel Clayton Grant, Democrat, Representative from New
Hanover County, was born in Wilmington. January 7, 1882. Son of
Reuben and Elizabeth (McMillan) Grant, Attended Wilmington
Public Schools, 1889-1901; University of North Carolina, 1901-1902;
University Law School, 1907. Lawyer. Member New Hanover
County Bar Association. Chairman Committee Four Minute Men,
New Hanover County, 1917-1918; Chairman Committee Public In-
struction, 1917-1918. Representative from New Hanover County
in the General Assemblies of 1917, 1919 and Senator from the
Ninth Senatorial District, 1927. Mason. Knights of Pythias, 1910.
Baptist. Married Miss Margaret E. Montgomery, November 24,
1908. Address: Wilmington, N. C.
TIPTON S. GREENE
Tipton S. Greene, Republican, Representative from Mitchell
County, was born in Bakersville, N. C. Son of Hoy W. and Celia
R. (Gibbs) Greene. Attended Bakersville High School; Stanley
McCormic, Burnsville and Athens College, Tennessee; Asheville
Business College. Lumberman. Private World War, Serial num-
ber 865261 — A. S. A. P. Mason; Wesley R. Ellis Post No. 193, Ameri-
can Legion. Methodist. Superintendent Sunday School, 1924-1930,
Bible Teacher; Steward. Married Miss Lucy C. Peterson of Burns-
ville, Mav 1, 1923. Address: Bakersville, N. C.
ROBY THOMAS GREER
Roby Thomas Greer, Democrat, Representative from Watauga
County, was born in that county, February 16, 1889. Son of
Thomas Frankling and Mary (Carlton) Greer. Attended Watauga
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Academy and Appalachian Training School, 1903-1907; University
of North Carolina. Farmer and stock raiser. Chairman Board
of County Commissioners, 1926-1930. Representative in the General
Assembly of 1931. Address: Blowing Rock, N. C.
CLARENCE GRIFFIN
Clarence Griffin, Democrat, Representative from Rutherford
County, was born in that county March 22, 1904. Son of Lewis W.
and Naomi (Johnson) Greene. Graduated Spindale High School,
1923. News Editor, the Forest City Courier: Managing Editor,
A r . C. Historical and Genealogical Record. Member North Carolina
Press Association Institute American Genealogy; British Society
Genealogists; North Carolina State Literary and Historical As-
sociation, Vice President, 1929. Secretary Rutherford County Demo-
cratic Executive Committee since 1928; member precinct Executive
Committee several years. Junior Order United American Mechanics;
Financial Secretary Hereditary Organizations; Sons of American
Revolution; Sons of Confederate Veterans; Order American
Pioneers; Order of the First Crusade; Society of the War of 1812;
Secretary-Treasurer and Historian Society of Griffin Kindred.
Methodist. Steward, 1926-1931; Sunday School Secretary several
years; Secretary-Treasurer Rutherford County Epworth League
Union, 1927-1928. Appointed County Historian Rutherford County,
1927; Member Rutherford County Civic Club, Secretary-Treasurer.
1929, 1931; Vice President Rutherford County Piedmont Council
Boy Scouts, 1929; Deputy Scout Commissioner, 1924-1928. Author
of "Descendants of Chisolm Griffin. 1931"; "The Bechtlers and
Bechtler Coinage," 1929; "Col. John Walker and Family," 1930.
Married Miss Thelma Clay, April 30, 1927. One son, Donald Clay
Griffin. Address: Forest City, N. C.
JAMES ALONZO GROVES
James Alonzo Groves, Democrat, Representative from Stanly
County, was born in Lowell, N. G, November 26, 1873. Son of
Robert Alexander and Margaret Lawing (Waddell) Groves. Cot-
ton manufacturer. Methodist. Representative in the General As-
sembly of 1931. Married Miss Nellie Hearne. 1924. Address: Albe-
marle, N. C.
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LUTHER HAMILTON
Luther Hamilton, Democrat, Representative from Carteret County,
was born at Atlantic, February 20, 1894. Son of Samuel E. and
Rebecca (Fulcher) Hamilton. Attended Oak Ridge Institute, 1910-
1911; University of North Carolina, 1911-1915; University Law
School, 1914-1915. Lawyer. State Senator, 1921. Representative in
the General Assembly of 1931. Mayor Morehead City, 1924-1929;
County Attorney, 1924-1928. Commissioned Second Lieutenant at
Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., 1917; assigned to Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas,
with 34th Infantry, eight months; thence overseas; twenty-three
months' service. Mason; Ocean Lodge No. 405, Morehead City;
Sudan Temple (Shrine), New Bern. Methodist; Steward and
teacher Baraca Class since 1916. Married Miss Marie Long, July 6.
1918. Address: Morehead City, N. C.
CALEB HILL HAYNES
Caleb Hill Haynes, Democrat, Representative from Surry County,
was born near Mount Airy, April 16. 1863. Son of Caleb H. and
Margaret (Davis) Haynes. Attended country free school and Mount
Airy Male Academy. Real Estate dealer. Member Kiwanis Club;
Director Bank of Mount Airy ten years. Elected Register of Deeds,
1892; 1894; Clerk Superior Court, 1898. 1902; Sheriff, 1908-1928;
Alderman Mount Airy, 1898. Chairman County Democratic Execu-
tive Committee, 190S; State Democratic Committee, 1908, served
six years; Delegate to National Democratic Convention 1912; mem-
ber Mount Airy School Board, 1915-1918. Appointed Deputy Col-
lector Internal Revenue, September 1913; promoted to Field Deputy
Western District, 1918, headquarters Statesville, holding said posi-
tion until consolidation of the districts. Appointed by J. W. Bailey
chief Field Deputy, holding said position until 1921. Appointed
Deputy State Tax Supervisor under A. D. Watts, January, 1922;
resigned December, 1922. Elected to the 1931 General Assembly
by a majority of 2,461. Mason. Baptist. Married Miss Lizzie
Bunker, January 10, 1889. Address: Mount Airy, N. C.
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JAMES HARDEN HOWELL
James Harden Howell, Democrat, Representative from Haywood
County, was born at Jonathans Creeks, July 2, 1883. Son of Erastus
H. and Sarah Josephine (Brown) Howell. Attended local Public
Schools; Rutherford College, 1900-1901; Eastern College, 1902-1904;
Washington and Lee University, 1904-1906; University of North
Carolina, Summer, 1906. Lawyer. Clerk and treasurer town of
Waynesville, 1907-1913; Attorney, 1913-1915; District Supervisor
Taxes, 1919-1920. Nominated for Representative from Haywood
County, 1917; resigned for service on the Mexican Border. Enlisted
Co. H., First N. C. Infantry, 1907; Second Lieutenant, 1910, Cap-
tain, 1910-1916; Major, First N. C. Infantry, June 1916-October, 1917;
Major 118th Infantry, 1917-1919; Lieutenant Colonel, O. R. C, since
1919. Mason. Waynesville Lodge, No. 259, A. F. and A. M.; High
Priest Waynesville Chapter Royal Arch Masons, 1926; Eminent Com-
mander Waynesville Commandery, 1927; Junior Order United
American Mechanics; Commander American Legion, 1920-1921; 1926-
1927. Methodist. Treasurer Building Committee since 1924. Mar-
ried Miss Pearl Marshall, October 28, 190S. Address: Waynes-
ville, N. C.
THOMAS CRAWFORD HOYLE, Jh.
Thomas Crawford Hoyle, Jr., Democrat, Representative from
Guilford County, was born June 19, 1907. Son of Thomas Craw-
ford and Lucy W. (Welfly) Hoyle. Attended Pomona High School,
1920-1924; University North Carolina, 1924-1928; Wake Forest Col-
lege. Lawyer. Member North Carolina and Greensboro Bar As-
sociations. Methodist. Address: Greensboro, N. C.
CHARLES HUTCHINS
Charles Hutchins, Democrat, Representative from Yancey County,
was born at Burnsville, September 3, 1889. Son of Landon Haines
and Trissa (Shepherd) Hutchins. Attended Yancey Collegiate In-
stitute, 1906-1909; LL.B., Wake Forest College, 1910. Lawyer. Mem-
ber North Carolina and Local Bar Associations. Representative in
General Assemblies of 1913 and 1929. County Attorney of Yancey
County. 1924. Baptist. Married Miss Effie Lee Griffith, October
25, 1909. Address: Burnsville, N. C.
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CHARLES L. INGRAM
Charles L. Ingram, Democrat, Representative from Macon County,
was born in Macon County, January 1, 1866. Son of John and Martha
M. (Moore) Ingram. Attended the public schools. Farmer. Travel-
ing salesman from 1900 to 1912. Postmaster at Franklin from 1916
to 1921; Sheriff of Macon County from 1924 to 1930. Mason; Junior
Order. Baptist. Married Miss Annie Gaston, October, 1891. Address:
Franklin, N. C.
ROBERT GRADY JOHNSON
Robert Grady Johnson, Democrat, Representative from Pender
County, was born at Burgaw, N. C, May 5, 1895. Son of Joab F. and
Myrtie (Grady) Johnson. Educated at Burgaw High School; Uni-
versity of North Carolina, and Wake Forest College. Lawyer.
Member Board of / ldermen, 1922-1928; Chairman County Board of
Elections; member Democratic Executive Committee. Member of
'he State Senate, 1129. Private, U. S. Army, February, 1918, to
May, 1919. Mason. Representative in the General Assembly of
1931. Address: Burgaw, N. C.
VICTOR RICHARDSON JOHNSON
Victor Richardson Johnson, Democrat, Representative from
Chatham County, was born at Mt. Vernon Springs, N. C, July
18, 1893. Son of R. P. and Clara (Hanner) Johnson. Attended
Pittsboro High School, 1908-1910; Round Hill Academy, Union
Mills, N. C, 1910-1911; Wake Forest College, B.A., 1915, LL.B..
1915; University Grenoble, France, 1919. Lawyer. Cashier
Farmers Bank, 1923-1925. A. E. F., 323rd Machine Gun Com-
pany, 81st Division, 1918-1919. Vice Commander American Legion.
Mason; Master Columbus Lodge No. 102, Pittsboro, 1923-1924; Dis-
trict Grand Master 13th Masonic District, 1923-1924; Sanford Chap-
ter, Southern Pines Commandery; Shriner, Oasis Temple, Char-
lotte. Baptist; Moderator Sandy Creek Association, 13 years; Su-
perintendent Sunday School, 1928-1933. Representative in the
General Assembly of 1931. Married Miss Nellie Pilkington. May
11. 1922. Two children, George Pilkington and Eleanor Winfrey
chnson. Address: Pittsboro, N. C.
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ALBERT ALLISON JAMES
Albert Allison James, Democrat, Representative from Forsyth
County, was born at Laurens, S. C, October 29, 1886. Son of
Joseph Herbert and Mary Ella (Brown) James. Attended Spar-
tanburg schools; Davidson College; Page School of Pharmacy.
Druggist. Member North Carolina Pharmaceutical Association,
President, 1926. Member Winston-Salem Board of Aldermen;
School Board and Board of Health; served as member North Caro-
lina Democratic Executive Committee. Kiwanis Club; Mason;
Sigma Alpha Epsilon. ' Presbyterian. Married; first, Miss Lois
Fleming Nott, June 7, 1911; second, Miss Anna Sizer, June 14, 1927.
Address: Winston-Salem, N. C.
GLOVER P. LEDFORD
Glover P. Ledford, Republican, Representative from Clay County,
was born in that county, December 1, 1890. Son of Wilson S. and
Anna B. (Shearer) Ledford. Attended schools of Clay County;
Murphy High School. Assistant Cashier Clay County Bank. Regis-
ter of Deeds of Clay County, 1924-1930. Rural Letter Carrier,
Route 1. Hayesville, 1912-1920. Church of God; Deacon since
1924. Married Miss Hazel May Davis, March 27, 1912. Address:
Hayesville, N. C.
J. MARSHALL LEE
J. Marshall Lee, Democrat, Representative from Sampson County,
was born in that county, March 1, 1888. Son of Marshall and Eliza-
beth (Fort) Lee. Attended Buie's Creek Academy, 1905-1908;
Wake Forest College, 1909 and 1911; M. D. Medical College of Vir-
ginia, 1916. Physician. Member Sampson County, North Caro-
lina and Virginia Medical Societies. Omega Upsilon Phi Medical
Fraternity. Baptist. Married Miss Alese Wagstaff, October 22,
1914. Address: Newton Grove, N. C.
WILLIE LEE LUMPKIN
Willie Lee Lumpkin, Democrat, Representative from Franklin
County, was born at Youngsville, N. C, May 14, 1903. Son of J. S.
and Lena (Parker) Lumpkin. Attended Youngsville High School
and Franklinton High School; Wake Forest College, 1919-1922;
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Wake Forest Law School. Lawyer. Member Kiwanis International.
City Attorney, town of Franklinton. Baptist; Deacon; President
Franklin County Baraca-Philathea Union, 1924. Representative in
the General Assembly, 1929, and 1931. Married Miss Margaret
B. Ray, 1922. Address: Franklinton, N. C.
OSCAR PERCY MAKEPEACE
Oscar Percy Makepeace, Democrat, Representative from Lee
County, was born at Noblesville, Ind., February 18, 1883. Son of
George Henry and Nannie (Fisher) Makepeace. Attended local
schools and Buie's Creek Academy. President and General Man-
ager Sanford Sash and Blind Company. City Alderman. Mayor.
Chairman School Board. Member Lodge No. 120, A. F. and A. M.;
Lee Chapter No. 72, Southern Pines Commandery No. 16; Char-
lotte Consistory No. 1; Moose; Junior Order; Rotarian. Methodist,
Steward twenty years. Representative in the General Assembly,
1925 and 1927. Member of State Senate from Thirteenth Senatorial
District, 1929. Married twice, first to Miss Zelma Turner Austin
1902; second to Miss Edelweiss King 1920. Address: Sanford, N. C.
JULIUS C. MARTIN
Julius C. Martin, Democrat, Representative from Buncombe
County, was born in Wilkes County, October 2, 1861. Son of Au-
gustus Harrison and Susan Virginia (Corpening) Martin. Attended
Oak Hill Academy, Grayson County, Va., 1881-1882; University
North Carolina, 1884-1885; Private Law School of Col. George N.
Folk, Caldwell County, 1887-1888. Lawyer. Member Buncombe
County, North Carolina and American Bar Associations. Chairman
Buncombe County Board of Education, 1903-1910; State Senator
1911. Mason; Beta Theta Pi. Baptist. Married Miss Helen Emilie
Werres-Goertz, December 29, 1891. Address: Asheville, N. C.
JAMES SPEED MASSENBURG
James Speed Massenburg, Democrat, Representative from Polk
County, was born in Louisburg, September 21, 1897. Son of Ben-
jamin B. and Lillian (Mangum) Massenburg. A.B. University
North Carolina, 1921; University of Maryland; Wake Forest Sum-
mer Law School. Lawyer. Member State Bar Association. Member
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Kiwanis Club; American Legion; Sigma Phi Epsilon. Represen-
tative in the General Assembly of 1925. Methodist. Married Miss
Ellen Colburn Seawell, October 15, 1927 (deceased). Address:
Tryon, N. C.
LAURIE McEACHERN
Laurie McEachern, Democrat, Representative from Hoke County,
was born in Marlow, Georgia, May 28, 1896. Son of John F. and
Margaret G. (Baker) McEachern. Attended Warrenton High School,
1910-1913; "Washington and Lee University, 1913-1917. Farmer.
President Raeford Kiwanis Club, 1930. Representative in the
General Assembly of 1931. Presbyterian. Address: Raeford, N. C.
DON LEE McLAUCHLIN
Don Lee McLauchlin, Democrat, Representative from Scotland
County, was born at Wagram, March 28, 1876. Son of Benjamin L.
and Effie (Johnson) McLauchlin. Attended Spring Hill High
School, 1883-1885. Farmer. Chairman Board of Elections Scotland
County; Justice of the Peace. Private Spanish American War.
Commissioned Lieutenant by Governor Glenn, 1906; Border Service;
World War Service, November 1917, Color Sergeant on staff of
Gen. J. VanB. Metts. Presbyterian. Address: Wagram, N. C.
LILY MOREHEAD MEBANE
Lily Morehead Mebane, Democrat, Representative from Rock-
ingham County. Was born at Spray, August 13, 1870. Daughter
of J. Turner and Lily (Connally) Morehead. Taught by govern-
ness before attending Peace Institute and Southern Home School,
Baltimore. Cotton Manufacturer. Baptist. Representative in the
General Assembly of 1931. Member of Board of University Trus-
tees. Married February 8, 1896, to B. Frank Mebane. Address:
Spray, N. C.
CHARLES E. MIZELL
Charles E. Mizell, Democrat, Representative from Washing-
ton County, was born in Williamston, November 11, 1873. Son of
A. L. and Maryann Mizell. Attended public schools and artillery
school in U. S. Army 1893-4. Retired officer U. S. Army. Mayor
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of Roper, Member of City Council, Member County Board of Edu-
cation. In U. S. Army from 1892 until 1922 when retired with
rank of Captain. Mason; Odd Fellow. Received several medals
for service, Spanish War, Philippines, overseas 18 months in World
War. Married Miss Lucas, July 29, 1903. Address: Roper, N. C.
DANIEL A. MONROE
Daniel A. Monroe, Republican, Representative from Montgomery
County, was born at Eagle Springs, July 3, 1890. Son of John C.
and Margaret (Seawell) Monroe. Attended Elise High School
1909-1913; State College, 1913-1916. Electrical Engineer; Stock
raising; Flour Milling. Member American Institute of Electrical
Engineers. Military Training at State College; Cadet Instructor
Capig District, Island of Panay, Philippines, 1917. Teacher and
Principal Iloilo Trade School, Island of Panay, Philippines. Na-
tional Grange, Master Local Grange No. 572, Star. Presbyterian.
Married Miss Florence Kelly, July 8, 1918. Address: Biscoe, N. C.
JOSEPH TRACY MOORE
Joseph Tracy Moore, Democrat, Representative from Guil-
ford County was born in Greensboro, in 1897. Son of
Joseph Shaw and Rose (Tracy) Moore. Attended Pomona and
Buffalo High School; Mars Hill. Realtor. Member National Real
Estate Association; past member Greensboro Real Estate Board;
Enlisted July 21, 1917, at Albuquerque, New Mexico. Ambulance
Driver and Dental Assistant; discharged January 13, 1919. Ameri-
can Legion Commander Greensboro Post, 1929; Chef de Guerre Forty
and Eight, Greensboro, 1930; State Chairman Foreign Relations
Committee, 1932-1933; Y. M. C. A. Baptist. Married Miss Virginia
Emma Fentriss, September 28, 1920. Address: Greensboro, N. C.
ROBERT BRUCE MORPHEW
Robert Bruce Morphew, Democrat, Representative from Graham
County. Was born in Robbinsville, N. C, in 1901. Son of Thomas
Arthur and Lillian (Slaughter) Morphew. Graduated from Rob-
binsville High School, 1919; attended Cullowhee Normal School,
1920; B.A., Tusculum College, 1925; Duke University, 1926-'27;
Summer School, Wake Forest, 1927. Lawyer. Sigma Nu Phi, legal
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fraternity. National Guard, 1924-1926, Troop D, Cavalry, at camp
during summer, corporal. Representative in the General Assembly
of 1931. Methodist. Address: Robbinsville, N. C.
OTWAY BINNS MOSS
Otway Binns Moss, Democrat, Representative from Nash County,
was born in Wilson, October 20, 1890. Son of Vernon F. and Loula
A. (Binns) Moss. Attended Wilson graded schools; LL.B. Wake
Forest, 1913. Lawyer. Vice-Recorder, Nash County Court, 1916-
1922. Supervisor Census Fourth Congressional District, 1919-1920.
Member School Board, 1919-1922. Chairman Democratic Executive
Committee, Manning's Township, 1916-1930; Member County Execu-
tive Committee, 1916-1932. State Senator, 1923 and 1925; Repre-
sentative, 1927, 1929 and 1931. Mason; Shriner, Sudan Temple.
Baptist. Superintendent Sunday School, 1920; Teacher Men's Bible
Class, 1929-1932. Married Miss Dolly Edwards, June 2, 1915; two
children. Address: Spring Hope, N. C.
JAMES CLAYTON MOYE
James Clayton Moye, Democrat, Representative from Greene
County. Was born in that county July 19, 1890. Son of James
Franklin and Mary E. (Meeks) Moye. Attended public schools;
Whitsett Institute, 1908; Ayden Free Will Baptist Teological Semi-
nary, 1912-1916. Minister. Chevrolet automobile dealer. Mayor
of Snow Hill, 1926-1929. Modern Woodmen of the World. Mod-
erator Central Conference of Free Will Baptist Church, 1918-1920.
Free Will Baptist. Representative in the General Assembly, 1929
and 1931. Married Miss Ethel Brooks, January 24, 1921. Address:
Snow Hill, N. C.
WALTER MURPHY
Walter Murphy, Democrat, Representative from Rowan County,
was born in Salisbury, October, 1872. Son of Andrew and Helen
(Long) Murphy. Educated at the University of North Carolina.
Attended Law School 1892-94. Lawyer. Trustee of the University
since 1903; executive committee of same. General Secretary of the
Alumni of the University. Trustee of the North Carolina Sana-
torium for the Treatment of Tuberculosis 1907-1914. Member of
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the State Democratic Executive Committee 1898, 1913. City Attor-
ney for Salisbury, 1903-1908. Member of the General Assembly
1S97, 1901, 1903, 1905, 1907, 1913, 1915, 1921, 1923, 1925, 1927.
Speaker of the House of Representatives at extra session 1914; of
the regular session 1917. Reading Clerk of the Senate, 1899. Elec-
tor-at-Large, 1908. B. P. O. E. F. O. E. Red Men. Knights of
Pythias, Mason. Sigma Nu (college) Fraternity. President of
the General Alumni Association of the University. President
Salisbury Kiwanis Club. A. A. O. N. M. S. Oasis Temple. Episco-
palian. Married Miss Maud Harvey 1903. Address: Salisbury,
N. C.
WILLIAM WEAVER NEAL
William Weaver Neal, Democrat, Representative from McDowell
County, was born in Marion, February 15, 1874. Son of G. H. and
Rowena (Weaver) Neal. Representative in the General Assembly.
1919, 1921, 1923, 1925 and 1931. Address: Marion N. C.
HARRISS NEWMAN
Harriss Newman, Democrat, Representative from New Hanover
County. Was born in Wilmington, October 2, 1897. Son of Joseph
and Rolinda (Jacobs) Newman. Attended public schools; Cape
Fear Academy, Trinity College; LL.B., University of North Caro-
lina, 1919. Lawyer. Member New Hanover County Bar Association;
North Carolina Bar Association; Chamber of Commerce, member
Executive Committee; Chairman Wilmington Chapter Red Cross,
Roll Call Chairman, 1927-1929; Executive Commander Boys' Brig-
ade; Member Board of Directors Baby's Hospital, Travelers Aid
Society; National Jewish Hospital, Denver, Col.; Member New Han-
over County High School Committee; Vice-Chairman State Allied
Jewish Campaign, 1930; Mason, Wilmington Lodge No. 219; B.
P. O. E. ; Shriner; Past President Wilmington Independent Order
B'nai Brith; Goldenrod Chapter Eastern Star. Of Jewish faith.
Representative in the General Assembly of 1931. Address: Wil-
mington, N. C.
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WILLIAM JETER OAKS
William Jeter Oaks, Republican, Representative from Avery
County, was born in Carter County, Tenn., October 20, 1899. Son
of James F. and Lieuvenia Ellen (Pilkington) Oaks. Attended
Elk Park High School; Appalachian State Teachers' College, two
years Normal work. Teacher in North Carolina and Tennessee for
fifteen years. Principal Minneapolis Consolidated Schools. Mayor
Elk Park, 1928-1930; Alderman, 1930-1931; Secretary Republican
Executive Committee, Avery County, 1932-1934. Cranberry Lodge
No. 598 A. F. and A. M., Treasurer, 1929-1933; Elk Park Council No.
85 Junior Order United American Mechanics. Baptist; Superintend-
ent Sunday School, 1929-1930. Married Miss Cora Lee Church, June
9, 1920. Address: Elk Park, N. C.
THOMAS O'BERRY
Thomas O'Berry, Democrat, Representative from Wayne County,
was born in Goldsboro, February 20, 1886. Son of Nathan and
Estelle (Moore) O'Berry. Attended Goldsboro Graded School;
Horner's Military Academy; B.S. University of North Carolina,
1907. Lumber Manufacturer and Insurance Agent. Represented
North Carolina Pine Association, Hoover's Standardization Com-
mittee, 1924; Vice-President North Carolina Pine Association, !920-
1924. Presbyterian. Married Miss Annie Land, December 14, 1910.
Address: Goldsboro, N. C.
HUBERT E. OLIVE
Hubert E. Olive, Democrat, Representative from Davidson County,
was born in Randleman, August 25, 1895. Son of A. J. and Emma
(Beckwith) Olive. Attended Mars Hill College, 1912-1914; B.A.
Wake Forest College, 1918; LL.B., 1920. Lawyer. Member North
Carolina Bar Association. Judge Lexington Recorder's Court, 1922-
1926. One year service overseas; First Officers Training Camp,
Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., 1917; Second Lieutenant U. S. Army, 1917-
1918. First Lieutenant, 1918-1919. Junior Order United American
Mechanics. Baptist. Lieutenant-Governor Division 3, Carolina Dis-
trict, Kiwanis International, 1930-1931; Chairman Underprivileged
Child Committee, 1921-1922; American Legion Department Service
Officer, 1924-1925; Judge Advocate, N. C. Department American
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Legion, 1926-1927. Married Miss Charlotte Anne Southerland, July
23, 1921. Address: Lexington, N. C.
ALBERT RUFUS PHILLIPS
Albert Rufus Phillips, Democrat, Representative from Stokes
County, was born in Dalton, May 7, 1888. Son of Dr. Matthew
Dalton and Margaret Melissa (Dalton) Phillips. Attended Leaks-
ville-Spray Institute, 1908; A.B. Wake Forest College, 1913; Th.M.
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1920. High School Prin-
cipal; Mountain Mission worker. Mason; Junior Order United
American Mechanics. Baptist; Trustee Shiloh Church, Pinnacle;
Pastor Olive Grove Mission Church. Treasurer, Argentine Baptist
Mission, 1922-1925; Teacher Bible and English in the Colegio Bau-
tista para Varonnes Buenos Aires. Married Miss Ruth Cooke, La-
crosse, Va., May 7, 1916. Address: Dalton, N. C.
RICHARD HUNTER POPE
Richard Hunter Pope, Democrat, Representative from Halifax
County, was born in that county December 8, 1887. Son of Dr.
Joseph Richard and Adelaide (Futrell) Pope. Attended Corry,
Pa., High School, 1902-1906; A.B. Wake Forest, 1909. Farmer.
Kiwanis Club, President, 1927; Member Board of Trustees Enfield
Graded School, 1926-1928; Halifax County Board of Education, 1928-
1932. Coast Artillery Officers Training School Fort Monroe, Va.,
1918. Mason; Enfield Chapter Royal Arch Masons, St. Aldemar
Commandery; High Priest, 1932; Master Hiram Lodge, Winchester,
Va., 1921. Baptist; Deacon 1925-1931. Teacher and Principal
Shenandoah Valley Academy, Winchester, Va., 1910-1923; Superin-
tendent Enfield Graded School, 1923-1926. Married Miss Zoe M.
Wilcox, 1915, who died in 1926; married Miss Annie Laurie, 1927.
Address: Enfield, N. C.
JOHN P. RANDOLPH
John P. Randolph, Democrat, Representative from Swain County,
was born at Burnsville, November 22, 1895. Son of David A. and
Margaret (Horton) Randolph. Attended Bryson City High School,
1908-1915; Studied Law under Mrs. A. M. Frye; Special Course
Wake Forest College, 1921. Lawyer. World War, 1917-1920; Sergeant
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Ninth Infantry, Second Division, Regular Army. Knights of
Pythias; Odd Fellows. Baptist. Married Miss Lois Frye, 1928.
Address: Bryson City, N. C.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT RAY
Theodore Roosevelt Ray, Democrat, Representative from Hender-
son County, was born in Asheville, September 9, 1904. Son of
Walter L. and Mary Christine (Baird) Ray. Attended Henderson
County Schools; Hendersonville High School; A.B. University
Chicago, 1925; Recommended for Rhodes Scholarship. Represen-
tative World Book Company. Second Lieutenant Officers Reserve
Corps. Tau Kappa Epsilon; Beta Epsilon; Delta Sigma Rho; Eta
Sigma Phi; Speakers Club. Baptist; Sunday School teacher; B. Y.
P. U. Leader; Auxiliary Deacon. Address: Hendersonville, N. C.
ROBERT H. ROUSE
Robert H. Rouse, Democrat, Representative from Lenoir County,
was born in Kinston, October 15, 1894. Son of N. J. and Mattie
(Rountree) Rouse. Student University of North Carolina, 1911-12;
Law Student University of Virginia. Lawyer. Member of North
Carolina Bar Association and American Bar Association; Kappa
Sigma; A. E. F. 1917-19; First Lieutenant. Disciple. Married
Miss Lucile Dixon, April 14, 1920. Address: Kinston, N. C.
JOSEPH WATTERS RUARK
Joseph Watters Ruark, Democrat, Representative from Bruns-
wick County, was born in Southport, November 29, 1885. Son of
James Buchan and Sallie (Longest) Ruark. Attended Southport
Academy; University of North Carolina, 1905-1906. Lawyer. Mem-
ber North Carolina Bar Association. Mayor Southport, 1915-1921;
Recorder, Brunswick County, 1921-1923; Prosecuting Attorney two
years. State Senator, 1923 and 1927. Junior Order United Ameri-
can Mechanics; Fort Johnston Council No. 27; Past Master Phythag-
oras Lodge No. 249 A. F. & A. M. Methodist. Married Miss Grace
K. Pridgen, August 25, 1929. Address: Southport, N. C.
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DAWSON EMERSON SCARBOROUGH
Dawson Emerson Scarborough, Democrat, Representative from
Richmond County, was born at Mt. Gilead, August 11, 1900. Son
of Alfred D. and Mary (Christian) Scarborough. Attended Hoff-
man High School, 1909-1917; LL.B., University North Carolina,
1923. Lawyer. Member Richmond County Bar Association. Prose-
cuting Attorney for Richmond County, 1929-1930. Two months in
Students Army Training Corps at Chapel Hill, 1918. Methodist.
Representative in the General Assembly of 1931. "Winner of J. W.
Bailey Prize offered by the North Carolina Club, University of
North Carolina, 1923. Address: Rockingham, N. C.
WILLIAM HENRY SIGMON
William Henry Sigmon, Democrat, Representative from Lincoln
County, was born in Catawba County, November 25, 1867. Son of
Harrison and Sallie (Howard) Sigmon. Attended common schools
and Oak Institute, Mooresville, N. C. Farmer. Register of Deeds
for Lincoln County, 1908-1914. Knights of Pythias, Chancellor
Commander, 1912; Jr. O. U. A. M. Methodist; Steward, 1915-1927;
Sunday School Teacher, 1915-1930; Chairman Parsonage Building
Committee, 1928. Representative in the General Assembly of 1931.
Married Miss Nannie E. Derr, December 21, 1901. Address: Den-
ver, N. C.
J. CALVIN SMITH
J. Calvin Smith, Democrat, Representative from Martin County,
was born near Farmville, Pitt County. Son of J. Thomas and
Emily (Tyson) Smith. Attended private schools and public schools
of Pitt County; Wake Forest Law School, 1907. Licensed to
practice law, August, 1907. Lawyer. Mayor of Robersonville, 1915-
1918; Judge Martin County Court, 1919-1926. Representative in the
General Assembly of 1931. Married Miss Margaret J. Chandler of
Mebane, September 6, 1911. Address: Robersonville, N. C.
HERSCHEL SPRINKLE
Herschel Sprinkle, Republican, Representative from Madison
County, was born at Mars Hill, October 12, 1891. Son of Alfred
F. and Julia (Callahan) Sprinkle. Attended public schools; Mars
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Hill College; Wake Forest College, 1913-1914; Massey's Business
College, Richmond, Va., 1910. Wholesale Grocer. Alderman of
Marshall, 1919-1920; 1929-1932. Sixteen months in World War,
Quartermaster Corps and Heavy Field Artillery; discharged as
First Sergeant. Mason; Master French Broad Lodge No. 292.
County Chairman 5-10 Year Farm Program; Chairman Madison
County Republican Executive Committee 1930-1931; Chairman Red
Cross two years; Chairman Madison County Farm Loan Com-
mittee. Presbyterian. Married Miss Stella Shelton March 2, 1919.
Address: Marshall, N. C.
CHARLES WAYLAND SPRUILL
Charles Wayland Spruill, Democrat, Representative from Bertie
County, was born at Quitsna, April 6, 1889. Son of Charles Way-
land and Annie E. (Tadlo'ck) Spruill. Attended Oak Ridge Insti-
tute, 1904-1906; State College, 1908-1909. Farmer. Merchant and
Manufacturer. Member Bertie County Road Commission, 1920-
1921; 1925-1930. Justice of the Peace since 1911; Chairman Re-
publican High School Board fifteen years; Chairman Township
School Board seventeen years. Davie Lodge No. 39 A. F. & A. M.;
Sudan Temple; A. A. O. K. M. S. Baptist. Married Miss Ruth
Bazemore, November 26, 1913. Address: Windsor, N. C.
L. L. STEVENS
L. L. Stevens, Democrat, Representative from Camden County,
was born at Indiantown November 5, 1878. Son of Benjamin W.
and Nancy (Leary) Stevens. Attended Sandy Hook Public School;
Shiloh High School Academy; Ph.B. University North Carolina,
1901. Educator and Farmer. Superintendent Camden County
Schools, 1921-1931. Mason. Baptist. Author of Eleven "Blue and
Gold" Annuals of the Staunton Military Academy. Married Miss
Vivian S. Bartlett, June 6, 1920. Address: Indiantown, N. C.
WILLIAM ADDISON SULLIVAN
William Addison Sullivan, Democrat, Representative from Bun-
combe County, was born in Salisbury, January 6, 1899. Son of
Hezekiah Holmes and Ada Lee (Lowry) Sullivan. Attended Ashe-
ville High School, 1915-1917; Patton, 1918; University of North
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Carolina, 1919-1921; Wake Forest College, 1922. Lawyer. Mem-
ber Buncombe County and Nortb Carolina Bar Associations. Police
Court Judge, Asheville, 1923-1928. Methodist. Married Miss Leola
Pearson, June 5, 1925. Address: Asheville, N. C.
CHARLES WALLACE TATEM
Charles Wallace Tatem, Democrat, Representative from Tyrrell
County, was born in Columbia, September 25, 1876. Son of Cam-
milas Etheridge and Ellen E. (McClees) Tatem. Attended Colum-
bia Academy, 1885-1891; Trinity School, 1892-1893. Civil Engineer.
Representative in the General Assembly of 1927, 1929 and 1931.
Married Miss Ella Gertrude Wynne, September 24, 1896. Address:
Columbia, N. C.
FRANCIS M. TAYLOR
Francis M. Taylor, Democrat, Representative from Halifax
County, was born at Brinkleyville, Halifax County. Son of John
R. and Martha (Marks) Taylor. Educated in the public and private
schools of the county, 1884-1895. Studied Medicine under Dr. John
O'Brien, 1897-1898. Merchant and Farmer. Justice of the Peace
since 1899. Tax Collector, 1908-1917; School Committeeman; mem-
ber County Board of Road Commissioners 1922-1931. Blue Lodge
Mason; Knight Templar; Shriner, Sudan Temple; Modern Woodmen
of the World; Odd Fellows. Methodist Protestant; Steward for last
thirty years. Representative in the General Assembly of 1917, 1919
and 1921. Married Miss Mattie E. Moore, January, 1902. Address:
Enfield, N. C, R. F. D.
HIERO LOUIS TAYLOR
Hiero Louis Taylor, Democrat, Representative from Mecklenburg
County, was born in Washington, D. C., March 5, 1886. Son of
Lt. Hiero Taylor, U. S. N., and Mary L. (Tayloe) Taylor. At-
tended Virginia public schools, Manassas Institute. LL.B. National
University, 1908; LL.M., June 1909. Lawyer. Member American,
North Carolina and Mecklenburg County Bar Associations. Mason,
Phalanx No. 31, A. F. & A. M. Episcopalian. Married Miss Blanche
Pepper, October 25, 1919.
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JAMES ALVIN TAYLOR
James Alvin Taylor, Democrat, Representative from Currituck,
was born at Currituck April 3, 1898. Son of Zion B. and Civility
Virginia (Boswood) Taylor. Attended Poplar Branch High School
and private schools. Register of Deeds since 1922, and County
Accountant Currituck County since 1927. Students Army Training
Corps, University North Carolina, three months, 1918. Mason;
Junior Order United American Mechanics; Past Councillor. Metho-
dist. Author of short poem "Awake, Arise, All Ye Neutrals" which
was set to music. Married Miss Ethel Louise Nelson, November
23, 1923. Address: Maple, N. C.
FRANCIS EDGAR THOMAS
Francis Edgar Thomas, Democrat, Representative from Anson
County, was born at Diamond Hill, Anson County, December 25,
1871. Son of John William and Susan (Liles) Thomas. Attended
Polkton High School; Wake Forest College, LL.B., 1902; University
of North Carolina Law School. Lawyer. Representative in the
General Assembly of 1913, 1915, and 1931. Baptist. Married Miss
Lucy Josephine Hawkins, 1910. Address: Wadesboro, N. C.
MARSHALL ALEXANDER THOMPSON
Marshall Alexander Thompson, Democrat, Representative from
Robeson County, was born at Aberdeen, July 26, 1893. Son of
William Henry and Ammie Jane (Smith) Thompson. Attended
Elise School, 1914; Glade Valley, 1915; Davidson College, 1915-1917;
A.B. Princeton University, 1921; M.A. 1922; Harvard University.
Editor, Scottish Chief; Farmer and Lumber Manufacturer. Mem-
ber North Carolina Press Association; National Editorial Asso-
ciation; Mormax Club; Robeson County Club. Member Board of
Trustees Liberty School; Township Democratic Executive Commit-
tee. Private U. S. Marine Corps, 1917-1919; wounded in battle of Bel-
leau Wood, June 1918. Knights of Pythias; The Grange, Member
Executive Committee, 1932; American Legion, Commander Liberty
Post, 1926, Adjutant, 1927-1931. Presbyterian; Superintendent
Midway Sunday School, 1925-1926; President Men-of-the-Church,
1932. Married Miss Mary Lewis Nivison, September 5, 1925. Ad-
dress: Maxton, N. C.
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WILLIAM ANDERSON THOMPSON
William Anderson Thompson, Democrat, Representative from
Beaufort County, was born near Aurora, November 26, 1875. Son
of W. A. and Sallie (Hamm) Thompson. Educated at Beech Grove
Academy, 1881-85; Vance Academy, 1885-91; N. B. Collegiate In-
stitute; University of North Carolina Law School, 1908. Lawyer.
County Commissioner 1904-08; Mayor of Aurora 1912-18; Chairman
Board of School Trustees Aurora, 1910-22; Ex-Chairman Democratic
Executive Committee; Member House of Representatives, 1911.
Mason; Odd Fellow. Methodist. Married August 3, 1898, Miss
Sallie Carr. Address: Aurora, N. C.
WILLIAM AVERY THOMPSON
William Avery Thompson, Democrat, Representative from Colum-
bus County, was born at Hallsboro, May 16, 1896. Son of James
Edwin and Mary Jane (Britt) Thompson. Graduated from Trinity
Park High School 1915 and Trinity College, A.B. Degree, 1919. Mer-
chant and Lumber Manufacturer. Member of Board of Elections
Columbus County, 1920. Member of Board of Land Appraisers,
1920. Member of County Board of Education, 1920-1925, Chairman.
World War veteran, Second Lieutenant in Field Artilery. Knights
of Pythias. Methodist, Steward and Sunday School Superintendent;
Vice-President County Sunday School Association. Member House
of Representatives, 1925. Married, 1920, Miss Mildred A. Carpenter.
Address: Hallsboro, N. C.
DANIEL DEAN TOMPKINS
Daniel Dean Tompkins, Democrat, Representative from Jackson
County, was born in Webster. August 15, 1890. Son of William F.
and Annie Harrison (Luck) Tompkins. Attended Waynesville High
School 1899-1907; Wake Forest College 1908-1909. Newspaper editor
and publisher. Member North Carolina Press Association. Presi-
dent Sylva Chamber of Commerce 1925-26 and 1931-32. Mayor Sylva,
1919-1931. Judge Jackson County Recorder's Court August, 1931,
filling unexpired term of late Joseph J. Hooker. Held court only
one day to wind up affairs of court which was abolished by county
commissioners. Enlisted July 17, 1917, in Radio Company, N. C.
N. G. Sergeant, Headquarters Detachment, 105th Field Signal Bat-
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talion, 30th Division, August 25, 1917, to April 22, 1919. Overseas
service May 27, 1918, to April 11, 1919. Member Unaka Lodge 358
A. F. & A. M. Junior Warden 1924-25; Senior Warden 1925-26;
Master 1927-28 and 1929-31. Methodist; Steward since 1925. Mar-
ried Miss Emily Hill Weigle June 23, 1931. Address: Sylva, N. C.
DAVID ELMER TURNER
David Elmer Turner, Democrat, Representative from Iredell
County, was born in Vance, N. C, February 21, 1876. Son of
W. W. and Margaret E. (Knox) Turner. Attended Barnes Acad-
emy, Lenoir, N. C, 1892; Davidson, 1899. Hardware dealer. Mem-
ber Hardware Association of Carolinas. Kiwanis Club. County
Commissioner, six and one-half years; County Board of Edu-
cation, two years; City Alderman, ten years; Clerk, Executive
Board: Chief Fire Department; Representative in the General
Assembly of 1929 and 1931. Presbyterian; Scout Master. Married
Miss Minnie Lee McNeely, December 17, 1901. Address: Moores-
ville, N. C.
THOMAS TURNER, JR.
Thomas Turner, Jr., Democrat, Representative from Guilford
County, was born in that county, October 3, 1900. Son of Henri
Catlett of Mt. Sterling, Ky., and Elizabeth Little (Dowd) Turner.
A.B., University of North Carolina, 1923; University Law School,
1923-1924. Lawyer. Member North Carolina Bar Association and
High Point Bar Association. Vice-Chairman Guilford County
Democratic Executive Committee, 1927-1929. Sigma Alpha Ep-
silon, College Fraternity. Episcopalian; Vestryman; Junior War-
den, 1926, Senior Warden, 1927. Representative in the General As-
sembly of 1931. Married Miss Elizabeth Nolan of Marietta, Ga., Oc-
tober 28, 1925; two children, Thomas Turner, III, and Marion
Nolan Turner. Address: High Point, N. C.
JOSEPH NEWSOME VANN
Joseph Newsome Vann, Democrat, Representative from Hertford
County, was born May 26, 1884. Son of Albert C. and Annie New-
some Vann. Attended Winton School 1898-99 and Wake Forest
College 1901-1903. Merchant and Farmer. County Commissioner
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1924-1926, Chairman of Board four years. Mason and Shriner.
Presbyterian; Treasurer and Superintendent of Sunday School.
Married Miss Agnes Wooten January 18, 1913. Address: Ahoskie,
N. C.
JOHN DREW WARLICK
John Drew Warlick, Democrat, Representative from Onslow
County, was born in Swan Quarter, June 5, 1890. Son of Robert
L. and Dora Elizabeth (Coston) Warlick. Attended Piedmont
High School, Lawndale, 1904-1905, Oak Ridge Institute 1909. Law-
yer; Member of N. C. Bar Association. Clerk to Governor Kitchin,
1911-13; Clerk in State House of Representatives 1913; Director
and Attorney of Bank of Onslow, Jacksonville; Attorney and Treas-
urer of town of Jacksonville, 1925-32; Chairman of Democratic
County Executive Committee 1926-32; Member of State Executive
Committee 1928-32; Member Executive Committee Young Demo-
cratic Clubs Third District, 1932. World War, 1917-19, First Lieu-
tenant; Member American Legion. Mason; Knight Templar;
Shriner; Past Master; Past High Priest; Past Commander; Past
District Deputy Grand Master. Methodist. Married Miss Mattie
Belle Tolson, October 25, 1932. Address: Jacksonville, N. C.
VAN SHARPE WATSON
Van Sharpe Watson, Democrat, Representative from Nash County,
was born in Nash County July 26, 1891. Son of James William
and Mattie (Exum) Watson. Attended Branham & Hughes School,
Spring Hill, Tenn.; King's Business, Raleigh, 1909. Farmer. Char-
ter member Kiwanis Club. Member Board of Aldermen, 1925-29
and Mayor of Rocky Mount, 1929-31. Mason. Methodist; Steward
since 1927. Married Miss Ruth Benedict, June 8, 1916. Address:
Rocky Mount, N. C.
R. JENNING WHITE
R. Jenning White, Democrat, Representative from Northampton
County, was born at Seaboard, N. C. Son of Rufus T. and Maria
Elizabeth (Harriss) White. Attended Buie's Creek Academy 1914-
16 and Whitsett Institute 1916-17 and Wake Forest College, LL.B.
Degree 1921. Lawyer. Mayor of Conway 1925-27. Private in in-
fantry student army training corps Wake Forest College, 1918.
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Mason. Baptist; Superintendent Sunday School 1924-30, Deacon
since 1924, Church Treasurer, 1927 and 1928. Married Miss Hettie
Mae Cannon, July 16, 1924. Address: Conway, N. C.
HAMPTON DURANT WILLIAMS
Hampton Durant Williams, Democrat, Representative from Dup-
lin County, was born in Duplin County July 23, 1877. Son of Du-
rant and Elizabeth (Kilpatrick) Williams. Attended Thompson
School, Siler City, 1896-98. Law School University of North Caro-
lina, 1899-1900. Lawyer, Farmer and Banker. Member of House
from Duplin in 1905 and 1907; Presidential Elector 1909. Mayor
of Kenansville 1909-15. Methodist. Married Miss Erma I. Williams,
of Hamilton, Martin County, June 26, 1901. Address: KenansviUe,
N. C.
ROBERT THOMAS WILSON
Robert Thomas Wilson, Democrat, Representative from Caswell
County, was born in Caswell County April 8, 1883. Son of Robert
P. and Virginia Adelaide (Travis) Wilson. Attended Danville Mil-
itary Institute 1900-1902, State College 1903 and Wake Forest Col-
lege Summer Law School 1915. Lawyer. Secretary Caswell County
Bar Association. Chief Clerk Enrolling Office sessions 1925 and
1927 and assistant for several terms prior thereto. Member Educa-
tional Commission 1923. Register of Deeds, 1910-1920; State Sena-
tor, 1923. Captain of Home Guards during World War. Mason;
Junior Order. Master Mason, Councilor of Junior Order. Baptist;
Deacon for 20 years. Member Legal Advisory Board, Chairman
Council of Defense, Chairman War Savings Committee and Food
Administration during World War. Trustee State College, 1923-
1929. Married in 1907 to Miss Mary F. Flintoff, who died in 1909;
married Miss Ella S. White October 11, 1911. Address: Yancey-
ville, N. C.
WILLIAM BRANTLEY WOMBLE
William Brantley Womble, Democrat, Representative from Wake
County, was born in Wake County August 6, 1896. Son of Andrew
Thomas and Carrie Lee (Edwards) Womble. Attended Wake
County Public Schools, Cary High School and University of North
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Carolina, 1918-1921. Lawyer. Member of Wake County Bar As-
sociation. Theta Chi College Fraternity, Phi Alpha Delta (Law),
Order of Grail; Mason; Baptist. Married Miss Etna Katherine
Smith, October 22, 1923. Address: Raleigh, N. C. and Cary, N. C.
PRESTON WOODALL
Preston Woodall, Democrat, Representative from Johnston County,
was born in that county, May 4, 1874. Son of William Ransom
and Mary (Creech) Woodall. Attended Public Schools of Johnston
County and Turlington Institute, Smithfield. Merchant and Farmer.
Formerly Vice-President Commercial National Bank and President
Citizens Bank & Trust Company of Benson; Member Town Board;
County Welfare Board since organization. Member of Kiwanis Club.
Presbyterian; Elder since 1916. Representative in the General
Assembly of 1931. Married Miss Emma C. Woodall, April, 1899.
Address: Benson, N. C.
J. F. WOODFIN
J. F. Woodfin, Democrat, Representative from Alexander County,
was born November 6, 1871. Son of Henry and Rebecca (Gilreath)
Woodfin. Attended Vashti school 1882-1892. Farmer and Saw Mill
and Grist Mill owner. Methodist. Married Miss Lelia Barnett
October 4, 1899. Address: Taylorsville, N. C, Rt. 3.
JAMES ROBERT YOUNG
James Robert Young, Democrat, Representative from Harnett
County, was born in Dunn, January 27, 1896. Son of Ernest
Foster and Alma (Fleming) Young. Attended Warrenton High
School, 1911-1913; Tennessee Military Institute, 1913-1914; Uni-
versity of Tennessee, 1914-1915; University of North Carolina,
1915-1917; University Law School, 1919-1920; Wake Forest Law
School, 1920-1922; licensed to practice law, January, 1922. Lawyer.
Member North Carolina Bar Association. Solicitor Recorders
Court of Dunn, 1929-1930. Private 119th Infantry, June 22, 1917-
June 26, 1917; Color Sergeant, June 26, 1917-July, 1917; Brevet
Sergeant Major, July, 1917-April 11, 1919; Served overseas with
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119th Infantry, 30th Division, April 1918-April, 1919; graduated
from Army Candidates School, Langres, France, December 31,
1918. At present, Captain Headquarters Battery, 113th Field
Artillery, N. C. National Guard. Thirty-second degree Mason;
Knights of Pythias; Sigma Nu, Psi Chapter, College Fraternity,
University of North Carolina. Representative in the General As-
sembly of 1931. Methodist. Married Miss Hazel Virginia Fetner
of Savannah, Ga., November 22, 1922. Address: Dunn, N. C.
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